Francis John Thomas (1824 - 1861)

Born 10 Jan 1824 in Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died 21 Jul 1861 at age 37 in Manassas National Battlefield Park, Prince William, Virginia, United States

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Biography

Francis was born in 1824. He was the son of Lloyd Thomas and Mary Brown. He passed away in 1861.

Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1844 (6).

Served in the Confederate Army as Colonel, May 17, 1861. Commanding Maryland Volunteers (May and June, 1861); July, 1861, acting chief of ordnance on General J. E. Johnston's staff. Killed July 21, 1861, at Bull Run, Virginia.

He was the son of Lloyd Thomas (Apr. 13, 1791 - Jan. 4, 1867) and Mary Rutherford Brown (Mar. 13, 1801 - Nov. 11, 1839). He was the granson of James Brown and Eleanor Rutherford. He was the brother of Margaret Rice Thompson Jackson, Mary Eleanor Rutherford Thomas (Sept. 9, 1825 - Jan. 22, 1907), Sally E. Thomas Craighill, Katherine Grace Thomas, Virginia Susan West, and James Henry Brown Thomas (Feb. 9, 1837 - Oct. 17, 1863).

He married Martha Ann Raymond (Apr. 12, 1832, N.Y.C. - Apr. 9, 1903, Rutherford N.J., daughter of James Raymond & Jane E. Jones). Francis and Martha had: 1. Mary Rutherford Thomas (July 30, 1852 - July 24, 1916) who married Rev. Gustav Arnold Carstensen (June 15, 1851 - June 26, 1941). They had: Grace Rengger Carstensen (b. Feb. 7, 1878), Francis Thomas Carstensen (Aug. 26, 1879 - Dec. 29, 1906), Jean Carstensen, George Bernard Carstensen, George Bernard Carstensen (July 31, 1882 - May 28, 1883), and Sophia Carstensen (May 30, 1889 - June 6, 1889).

2. Jane Elizabeth Thomas 3. Sophia Raymond Thomas (Nov. 20, 1856 - Dec. 15, 1939) 4. Letitia Blackwell Thomas 5. Francis William Raymond Thomas (July 31, 1861 - Mar. 14, 1869, Yonkers, N.Y.)

Cullum's Register

Military History. — Cadet at the Military Academy, Sep. 1, 1840, to July 1, 1844, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to

Bvt. Second Lieut., 3d Artillery, July 1, 1844.

Served: in garrison at Ft. McHenry, Md., 1844‑45, — and Ft. Moultrie, S. C., 1845‑46; in the War with Mexico, 1846‑48, being engaged

(Second Lieut., 2d Artillery, June 18, 1846)

in the Battle of Monterey, Sep. 21‑23, 1846, — and in the Attack on

(Transferred to 3d Artillery, Oct. 19, 1846)

the San Antonio Garita of the City of Mexico, Sep. 12‑13, 1847; and

(First Lieut., 3d Artillery, Mar. 22, 1847)

on frontier duty at Santa Fé, N. M., 1848‑49, — Expedition to Cañon p196 del Perro, against Apache Indians, 1849, — and Santa Fé, N. M., 1849‑50.

Resigned, June 30, 1852.

Civil History. — Chief Engineer, Montevue Railroad, from Piedmont, Va., to Fairfield, Pa., 1854. Superintendent of Montevue Mining and Manufacturing Company, Allegheny County, Pa., 1855‑56; and of Pinnakinnick Coal Mines, Clarksburg, Va., 1857‑58. General Commission Merchant, Baltimore, Md., 1859‑61.

Joined in the Rebellion of 1861‑66 against the United States, and was

Killed, July 21, 1861, at the Battle of Bull Run: Aged 37.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110652026/francis_john_thomas

• https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/1211*.html

• https://stonesentinels.com/manassas/tour-manassas-battlefield/henry-hill-visitor-center/colonel-thomas-mar/