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Encyclopedia: George Henry Thomas |
 | | George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 â“ March 28, 1870), the "Rock of Chickamauga", was a career U.S. Army officer and a Union general during the American Civil War. |
 | | Thomas was born in Newsom's Depot, Southampton County, Virginia. |
 | | In 1831, Thomas, his sisters, and his widowed mother were forced to flee from their home and hide in the nearby woods in the wake of Nat Turner's slave rebellion. |
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