Thomas H. Taylor
Thomas H. Taylor | |
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Brigadier General (CSA) (unconfirmed) | |
Battles/wars | Mexican–American War American Civil War |
Other work | Chief of police, Louisville, Kentucky |
Thomas Hart Taylor (July 31, 1825 – April 12, 1901) was a
Early life
Thomas H. Taylor was born July 31, 1825, at Frankfort, Kentucky.[1] He was the son of Edmund Taylor, second cousin once removed of President and Major General Zachary Taylor, and his second wife, a Miss Hart.[2] Taylor attended Kenyon College in Ohio and graduated from Centre College in Kentucky in 1843.[1][3][4]
During the Mexican–American War, Taylor served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment, at first as a private, and then as a first lieutenant.[1][3][5] Taylor was a cattle driver, farmer and lawyer before the war.[1][3][4]
Taylor was married three times.[6] In 1844, he married Sarah Elizabeth Blandford.[6] They had one child, Edmund Haynes Taylor, before her death in 1858.[6] In 1864, he married Sarah A. Moreland of Mobile, Alabama, who died some time before 1878.[6] In 1878, he married Eliza Adair Monroe.[6] They had four children, Mary Louise, John Adair Monroe, Thomas Hart Jr. and Adair Monroe.[6]
American Civil War service
Thomas H. Taylor began his Confederate Army Civil War service as a
After proceeding to
On August 7, 1861,
Taylor's regiment was assigned to Brigade 5, Division 1 of the Army of East Tennessee in March 1862.[1][13] The 1st Kentucky Infantry was a 12-month regiment which was mustered out of the Confederate States Army in the summer of 1862.[3] Taylor was assigned to brigade command in the Department of East Tennessee by Major General E. Kirby Smith.[1][4] This division served at Cumberland Gap and in Kentucky.[3][4]
Thomas H. Taylor was appointed brigadier general on November 4, 1862, but the Confederate Senate refused the appointment when Confederate President Jefferson Davis failed to nominate Taylor.[1][3][14]
After commanding a brigade in Major General
Taylor was captured at the fall of
After his exchange, Taylor had brief service at Mobile, Alabama and then was given command of the District of Mississippi and East Louisiana in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana from March 5, 1864, to April 28, 1864.
On June 24, 1864, Taylor became provost marshal of the Department of Alabama and East Mississippi under Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee at Meridian.[1][4][15] From November 1864 until the end of the war, Taylor was in command of the post at Mobile, Alabama.[1][4][5][15] In this capacity, he commanded only some reserve and local defense troops, charged more with maintaining order than defending the city, which he was compelled to evacuate with Confederate troops from local forts on April 11, 1865.[5][15] According to some sources, no record of his parole has been found,[1] but at least one source says Taylor was paroled on May 5, 1865, with troops at Jackson, Mississippi, where he acted as parole commissioner for Confederate troops in that area under orders from Lieutenant General Richard Taylor.[15]
Aftermath
After the Civil War, Taylor moved to Alabama where he engaged in business at Mobile until 1870.[3] He returned to Kentucky and served for five years as deputy U.S. Marshal.[3] Taylor was chief of police of Louisville, Kentucky from 1881 to 1892.[1][3][4] Even though he had no experience as an engineer, he was superintendent of the Louisville and Portland Canal between February 1886 and 1889 when he was replaced due to a change in administration.[15] Thomas Hart Taylor died at Louisville, Kentucky on April 12, 1901, of typhoid fever.[1][3][4][19] Taylor was buried at State Cemetery, Frankfort, Kentucky.[1][3]
See also
Notes
- ^ ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 612.
- ISBN 978-0-517-52196-0. Retrieved February 3, 2012. p. 229.
- ^ ISBN 0-8071-0823-5. pp. 300–301.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6. p. 744.
- ^ ISBN 0-8160-1055-2. p. 643.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8131-2475-9. Retrieved February 1, 2012. p. 263.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Allardice, 2008. p. 259.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-306-81141-8. p. 211.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Robinson, William Morrison. 'The Confederate privateers'. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1990. Reprint of 1928 edition. 978-0-87249-691-0. Retrieved February 2, 2012. pp. 134–135.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Beatie, 2002, p. 212.
- OCLC 317589712. Retrieved February 1, 2011. p.75.
- OCLC 602549967. Retrieved February 3, 2012. pp. 55–58.
- Peninsula Campaign. This seems to contradict Eicher's statement of the date the regiment was assigned to duty in Tennessee.
- ISBN 0-8129-1726-X. First published New York, McKay, 1959. p. 828.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Allardice, 2008, p. 262
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8160-6459-5. p. 317.
- ^ OCLC 68283123. pp. 372–373.
- ^ Eicher gives an end date of April 5 but in view of Allardice's more specific information, including Taylor's arrival only on March 30, Allardice's end date is given in the text.
- ISBN 0-87338-505-5. Retrieved February 1, 2012. pp. 211–212.
References
- Allardice, Bruce S. and Lawrence L. Hewitt. 'Kentuckians in gray: Confederate generals and field officers of the Bluegrass State'. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8131-2475-9. Retrieved February 1, 2012.
- Beatie, Russel Harrison. 'The Army of the Potomac: Birth of command, November 1860-September 1861'. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-306-81141-8.
- ISBN 978-0-8129-1726-0. First published 1959 by McKay.
- Davis, Jefferson. 'The rise and fall of the Confederate government, Volume 2', New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. OCLC 547724. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- Eicher, John H., and ISBN 978-0-8047-3641-1.
- Espy, William R.'Oysterville: Roads to Grandpa's Village'. New York: C.N. Potter : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1977. ISBN 978-0-517-52196-0. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971. OCLC 68283123.
- Robinson, William Morrison. 'The Confederate privateers'. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina Press, 1990. Reprint of 1928 edition. 978-0-87249-691-0. Retrieved February 2, 2012.
- Schultz, Fred L. "Taylor, Thomas Hart" in Historical Times Illustrated History of the Civil War, edited by Patricia L. Faust. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. ISBN 978-0-06-273116-6.
- Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. ISBN 978-0-8160-1055-4.
- Stuart, J.E.B. Engagement at Dranesville, Virginia in Confederate War Journal, Volume 2. New York; Lexington, KY: War Journal Pub. Co., "The printery", 1893–1895. OCLC 602549967. Retrieved February 3, 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-8071-0823-9.
- Welsh, Jack D. 'Medical Histories of Confederate Generals' Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-87338-505-5. Retrieved February 1, 2012.