Theophilus Hunter Holmes (November 13, 1804 – June 21, 1880) was a career United States Army officer and a Confederate Lieutenant General in the American Civil War. A friend and protégé of the Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, he was appointed commander of the Trans-Mississippi Department, but failed in his key task, which was to defend the Confederacy's hold on the Mississippi.
Antebellum
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Service Record
| December 26, 1860 - April 14, 1861: Operations in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina |
Dispatches
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At the outbreak of the war, Theophilus Holmes was a Major in the 8th United States Regular Infantry
These dispatches were compiled with primary source materials from The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Chapter 1)
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CONTENTS
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(US AG/Col) Samuel Cooper
- At the outbreak of the war, Samuel Cooper was a Colonel and the Adjutant General of the United States Army
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| February 1, 1861 - Adjutant-General Samuel Cooper to Major Theophilus Holmes
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ADJUTANT-GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, D.C., February 1, 1861.
Major T.H. HOLMES,
Eighth Infantry, Commanding Fort Columbus,
Governor's Island, N.Y.:
SIR: About twenty women and children from Major Anderson's command at Fort Sumter are on their way to New York, and application will probably be made to receive them at Fort Columbus. Should this be the case you will please make them as comfortable as circumstances will permit, and give rations to such as are properly laundresses of companies. If better quarters can be thus secured to them they can be sent to Fort Wood.
I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. COOPER,
Adjutant-General.
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(US AAG) Lorenzo Thomas
- At the outbreak of the war, Lorenzo Thomas was a United States Assistant Adjutant-General
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| January 5, 1861 - Assistant Adjutant-General Lorenzo Thomas to Major Theophilius Holmes
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HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY,
New York, January 5, 1861.
Maj. T.H. HOLMES,
Eighth Infantry,
Superintendent Recruiting Service, Fort Columbus:
SIR: By direction of the General-in-Chief, you will detach this evening two hundred of the best-instructed men at Fort Columbus, by the steamship Star of the West, to re-enforce the garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina.
They will be furnished with arms, and, if possible, one hundred rounds of ammunition per man. Orders will be given to the proper officers of the staff department to furnish one hundred stand of spare arms and subsistence for three months.
The officers assigned to duty with the detachment are Lieuts. C.R. Woods, Ninth Infantry; W.A. Webb, Fifth Infantry; C.W. Thomas, First Infantry, and Asst. Surg. P.G.S. Ten Broeck, Medical Department, all of whom will report for duty to Major Anderson, commanding Fort Sumter.
Yours,
L. THOMAS.
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Post-War Career
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Family
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