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Confederate (CSA)

Lieutenant

Oliver Hough Thomas

(1822 - 1870)

Home State: Maryland

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Archer's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

He was a lawyer in San Francisco, CA before the War. He was appointed Lieutenant and aide-de-camp to General Archer on 13 June 1862.

On the Campaign

From General Archer's Report:

[at Sharpsburg] Captain R. H. Archer, my assistant adjutant-general, though not yet recovered from a severe illness; Lieutenant Thomas, aide, and Lieutenant [George] Lemmon, ordnance officer, rendered brave and efficient assistance, and charged with the troops upon the enemy ... [at Shepherdstown] Captain Archer and Lieutenants Thomas and Lemmon, of my staff, rendered valuable and efficient assistance.

The rest of the War

He was on court-martial duty in Richmond, VA while General Archer was a prisoner after Gettysburg. He was again on the General's staff in 1864, with no further military record after November 1864.

References & notes

Service from Krick1. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Ann Herman "Nannie" Archer (the General's sister, 1822-1882) married Oliver Hough Thomas in 1868.

Birth

1822 in MD

Death

09/23/1870; Elkton, MD; burial in Saint Georges Episcopal, Perryman, MD

Notes

1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 284 [AotW citation 17586]

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