737. Thomas DeBusk
1850 Washington Co, VA census, p. 155
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 141
Underwood, Aileen, The Descendants of Paulser Rouse
1850 Washington Co, VA census, p. 156
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 174
Underwood, Aileen, The Descendants of Paulser Rouse
From Sire to Cousin
739. Jacob M DeBusk
1850 Washington Co, VA census, p. 155
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 141
1850 Smyth Co, VA census, p. 202
743. Isabella J Thomas
Tennessee marriage records.
1830 Washington Co, VA census
1850 Washington Co, VA census, p. 143
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p.
1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 47
1900 Washington Co, VA census, p. 176B
Rosenbaum, p. 130 incorrectly names him as "Jeff Trent."
1592. Henry Trent
1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 47
1594. Sarah Jane Trent
1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 47
1900 Washington Co, VA census, p. 176B
1595. Mary Elizabeth Trent
1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 47
1597. Nancy Anne Trent
1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 47
1900 Washington Co, VA census, p. 176B
1598. Florence Gilmore Trent
1880 Washington Co, VA census
1599. Susan Isabelle Trent
1880 Washington Co, VA census
Source: The Rosenbaum Family, p. 140
1600. Rachel Minerva Trent
1900 Washington Co, VA census, p. 176B
744. Dr. James D Thomas
From Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry, p. 142:
"Sgt., Co. H. Enl. 7/24/61 at Abingdon for 1 yr. Age 21. Present 1-12/62. Apptd 4th Sgt. 4/23/62. Deserted 4/8/64 at Morton's Ford. Sent to Washington 4/11/64 by provost marshall, Army of Potamac. Took oath of allegiance and transported to Philadelphia.See Rosenbaum Family, p. 130. States James D Thomas was a dentist.
Washington Co, VA Deed Book 32-77, dated June 18, 1875 from Edward Thomas to James D. Thomas. He paid $100 for 16 acres located on the north side of Laural Fork of the Holston River.
This land bordered land owned by William Colgate who married Eleanor Thomas in 1852.See Bennett, Washington Co, Tennessee, Vol. I, p. 15. Barnes Cemetery- 19.
Watauga Association of Genealogists: Upper East Tennessee, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1994, p. 107: "James D. Thomas-Jennie F. Barnes, 27 July 1882, J.C. Davidson, MG both parties were white. James D. Thomas age 40 born VA, lived Washington Co, Dentist. Jennie F. Barnes age 19 born and lived Washington Co. Witness: James C. Bowman and Joseph Bowman.
Watauga Association of Genealogists: Upper East Tennessee Bulletin, Vol. 23,
No. 2, p. 107Bennett, Washington Co, Tennessee, Vol. I, p. 15, Barnes Cemetery- 19.
See letter from Robert Tipton Nave dated November 11, 1995
1602. Edward A Thomas
Washington County, TN, by Bennett, Vol. I, P. 15
1603. James Beverly Thomas
Bennett, Washington Co, TN Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. III, No. 94, p. 112.
Social Security Index SSN: 412-78-8474
Bennett, Washington Co, TN Tombstone Inscriptions, Vol. III, No. 94, p. 112.
Letter from Pearl Thomas to Joe Thomas dated August 25, 1971 suggests that Vona Keefauver Thomas once had possession of a Thomas Family Bible. Vona's father-in-law, Dr. James D. Thomas, was the oldest son in the Edmond Thomas household, so it is likely a family bible was passed down to him. Several attempts to contact the family of Vona Keefauver Thomas to locate this family bible have been unsuccessful.
745. John Campbell Thomas
1850 Washington Co, VA census, p. 149B
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 141. Farm Laborer.
See Johnson County, Tennessee Marriage Records. Book for marriage to Mary Rosenbalm on 7 jul 1863.
From Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Infantry, p. 142:
"Pvt., Co. H. Enl. 3/11/62 at Abingdon for 3 yrs. Present 3-12/62. Pd. for 4/30-8/31/62. Issued clo. 1st, 2nd qtrs. '64. Cptd 5/12/64 Spotsylvania Courthouse. Sent 5/20/64 Belle Plain to Ft. Deleware. Rel. on oath 5/11/65. 5'6", dark complex., blue eyes, brown hair."1870 Washington Co, VA census, p. 42B.
From Rosenbaum Family, p. 130-133:
"In 1875 John Campbell Thomas and family came by covered wagon to Jonesborough, TN where he worked as a common laborer, later moving and purchasing a farm in the Oakland community. He remained there until his death January 5, 1918."A descendant of John Campbell Thomas is Marcella Epperson 2220 Silverdale Dr. Johnson City, TN 37601.
1870 Washingon Co, VA census, p. 42B
The Rosenbaum Family, p. 130-133.
746. Henry Clay THOMAS
From Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Infantry, p. 142:
"Henry C Thomas. Pvt., Co. H. Enl. 3/11/62 at Abingdon for 3 yrs. Present 3-12/62. Issued clo. 1st, 2nd qtrs. '64 Cptd. 5/12/62 (should be 5/12/64) Spotsylvania Courthouse. Sent 5/20/64 Belle Plain to Ft. Delaware. Released on oath 5/4/65. 5'8", ruddy complex., brown eyes, auburn hair.From Wikipedia:
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Army of Northern VirginiaSecond Corps
Lieutenant General Richard EwellJohnson's Division
Major General Edward JohnsonSteuart's Brigage
Brigadier General George Hume Steuart
1st North Carolina
3rd North Carolina
10 Virginia
23rd Virginia
37th VirginiaReport of. Lieut. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, C. S. Army, Commanding Second Army Corps, Of Operations May 4-29. MAY 4-JUNE 12, 1864--Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River, Va.
RICHMOND, VA., March 20, 1865:Wednesday, May 11, it rained hard all day and no fighting took place. Toward night the enemy were reported withdrawing from Andersons front and were heard moving to our right. Scouts stated them to be retiring to Fredericksburg. I received orders to withdraw the artillery, which was done along Johnson's front. Soon after midnight Major-General Johnson reported the enemy massing before him, and General Long was directed to return the artillery to the intrenchments, and General Gordon ordered to be ready to support Johnson. Different artillery was sent back, and owing to the darkness and to ignorance of the location it only reached the lines in time to be taken. The enemy attacked in heavy force at earliest dawn, and though gallantly resisted, their numbers and the want of artillery enabled them to break through our lines, capturing Maj. Gen. Edward Johnson, Brig. Gen. G. H. Steuart, about 2,000 men, and 20 pieces of artillery.
The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania, was the second battle in Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. It was fought in the Rapidan Rappahannock river area of central Virginia, a region where more than 100,000 men on both sides fell between 1862 and 1864.
The battle was fought from May 8 to May 21, 1864, along a trench line some four miles (6.5 km) long, with the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee making its second attempt to halt the spring offensive of the Union Army of the Potomac under the command of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George G. Meade. Taking place less than a week after the bloody, inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, it pitted 52,000 Confederate soldiers against a Union army numbering 100,000.Contents
1 Background
2 Battle
3 Aftermath
4 See also
5 References
6 External linksBackground
After Lee checked the Union advance in the Wilderness, Grant decided to take advantage of the position he held, which allowed him to slip his army around Lee's right flank and continue to move south toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. He already had troops on the move by the night of May 7, just one day after the Wilderness fighting ended, and on May 8, he sent Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and his V Corps to take Spotsylvania, 10 miles (16 km) to the southeast. Lee anticipated Grant's move and sent forces to intercept him: cavalry under Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart and the First Corps, commanded by Maj. Gen. Richard H. Anderson (its usual leader, Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet </wiki/James_Longstreet>, had been wounded in the Wilderness).Battle
The Confederates won the race to Spotsylvania, and on May 9 </wiki/May_9>, each army began to take up new positions north of the small town. As Union forces probed Confederate skirmish lines on May 9 </wiki/May_9> to determine the placement of defending forces, Union VI Corps </wiki/VI_Corps_%28ACW%29> commander Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick </wiki/John_Sedgwick> was killed by a sharpshooter </wiki/Sniper>; he was succeeded by Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright </wiki/Horatio_G._Wright>. Lee deployed his men in a trench line stretching more than four miles (6.5 km), with artillery placed that would allow enfilade </wiki/Enfilade> fire on any attacking force. There was only one major weakness in Lee's line—an exposed salient </wiki/Salients%2C_re-entrants_and_pockets> known as the "Mule Shoe" extending more than a mile (1.6 km) in front of the main trench line. Lee recognized this weakness during the fighting of May 10 </wiki/May_10>, when twelve Union regiments under the command of Col. Emory Upton </wiki/Emory_Upton> followed up a concentrated, intense artillery attack by slamming into the toe of the Mule Shoe along a narrow front. They actually broke the Confederate line, and the Second Corps had a hard time driving them out. Upton's attack won him a promotion on the spot to brigadier general </wiki/Brigadier_General>, and it became a staple of military textbooks on how to break an enemy trench line. Similar tactics were used by Germany </wiki/Germany> in its successful March 1918 offensive </wiki/Operation_Michael> during World War I </wiki/World_War_I>.
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Seeing the danger, Lee began to lay out a new defensive line across the heel of the Mule Shoe that night, but before he could get it finished, Grant sent his entire II Corps </wiki/II_Corps_%28ACW%29> of 15,000 men, commanded by Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock </wiki/Winfield_S._Hancock>, to attack the position in the same manner Upton had. This time, the breach in the Confederate line was complete, thanks in large part to an order from Lee that had already pulled much of the Confederate artillery back to the new line. The II Corps took close to 4,000 prisoners and probably would have cut the Army of Northern Virginia in half if the IX Corps </wiki/IX_Corps_%28ACW%29> (Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside </wiki/Ambrose_E._Burnside>), supporting it with an assault on the Confederate right flank, had pushed its attacks home with force. Instead, Lee was able to shift thousands of his men to meet the threat. Because of ineffective leadership displayed by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell </wiki/Richard_S._Ewell>, Lee felt compelled to personally lead Second Corps soldiers in the counterattack. His men realized the danger this would pose and refused to advance until Lee removed himself to a safer position in the rear. The battle in the Mule Shoe lasted for an entire day and night, as the Confederates slowly won back all the ground they had lost, inflicting heavy losses on the II Corps and the reinforcing VI Corps in the process. The angle between the II and VI Corps became known as the "Bloody Angle of Spotsylvania," where perhaps some of the most savage fighting of the whole Civil War took place. Whereas bayonet battles usually are very short, at the Bloody Angle, Union and Confederate troops fought with bayonets for hours in the same trenches.
By 3 a.m. on May 13 </wiki/May_13>, just as the Confederates had completed expelling the II Corps from the Mule Shoe, the new line was ready, and Lee had his battered men retire behind it. More than 10,000 men fell in the Mule Shoe, which passed to the Union forces without a fight. On May 18 </wiki/May_18>, Grant sent two of his corps to attack the new line, but they were met with a bloody repulse. That convinced Grant, who had vowed to "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer," that Lee's men could not be dislodged from their Spotsylvania line.
Grant, checked by Lee for a second time, responded as he had two weeks earlier. He shifted the weight of his army to the right flank and again moved to the southeast along roads Lee was unable to block. By May 20 </wiki/May_20>–May 21 </wiki/May_21>, the two armies were on their way to take positions along the North Anna River </wiki/Battle_of_North_Anna>, another dozen miles closer to Richmond.Aftermath
Once again, Lee's tactics had inflicted severe casualties on Grant's army. This time, the toll was over 18,000 men, of which close to 3,000 were killed. In two weeks of fighting, Grant had lost 35,000 men, and another 20,000 went home when their enlistments ended. In fact, Grant at one point on the North Anna had fewer than 65,000 effectives. But Lee did not come out of these battles unscathed, either. At Spotsylvania, he lost another 10–13,000 men, and the Confederates had to pull men away from other fronts to reinforce him. Making matters worse, the army was taking heavy losses among its veteran units and its best officers. This may have saved Grant from a disaster on the North Anna, when his decimated army was positioned badly and was ripe to be attacked. Lee never did, because the Army of Northern Virginia was unable to do so. In fact, Lee's army would never regain the initiative it lost in those two weeks of May 1864.
Estimates vary as to the casualties at Spotsylvania Court House. The following table summarizes estimates from a variety of popular sources:See Parke Co., IN Marriage Records, Book 4, Page 353 for marriage to Narcissa Heslar.
In 1870 Washington Township, Parke County, IN census at page 227, Henry C. Thomas, age 25, is listed as a farmer living with wife, Narcissa (Heslar), age 26, keeps house, and son, "Freddie O", age 1. He is listed with $300 of personal property.
A search of the 1880 Parke County census fails to find Henry, Narcissa, or their children, Freddie, age
See Parke Co, IN Marriage Records, Book 8, Page 210 for marriage to Rachel F. Purcell.
The Parke County Death Records do not show Henry or Narcissa. Grace Kidwell Cloud says her grandfather, Henry Clay Thomas, was kicked in the head by a horse and died 3 or 4 days later.
Parke Co, IN Marriage Records, Book 4, Page 353
Parke County Marriage Records, Book 8, Page 210
747. Susanna Widener
Rosenbaum Family, p. 505
748. Margareth Widener
Rosenbaum Family, p. 505
Rosenbaum Family, p. 505
751. Nancy Jane Widener
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 146
754. John O Widener
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 146
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1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 349
High on a Windy Hill, No. 279A3Member of the Stonewall Division, CSA. Shown in records of Washington County as having been granted a pension by the Act of 1902 for his military service to the Confederacy. Pension requirements were that James must have been indigent and disabled by the War. It is unclear if this is "our" James Thomas as Catherine DuVal Thomas' notes show his date of death as 1885, before this James was granted a pension.
James Madison Thomas enlisted in the Army for one year at Goodson,Virginia on April 20, 1861, with his brother Charles. The Muster Rollshows him as present in August, 1861 and January, 1862. He was woundedin May, 1862, and in the hospital in Staunton, Virginia. After that, he was apparently detailed as a teamster from June, 1862, and was shown onthat detail December 1, 1864. He surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox Court House and was paroled there. He returned home to Washington County, and is buried at East Hill Cemetary there.
755. Benjamin B Widener
1860 Washington Co, VA census, p. 147
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