Thomas Hart Taylor

Birth Date

1825-07-31

Death Date

1901-04-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kentucky merchant and soldier. Frankfort, Kentucky, native. Son of Edmund H. Taylor and Louisa Hart Taylor. Married to Sarah Elizabeth Blanton in 1844. Father of Edmund Haynes Taylor. Married to Sarah A. Moreland in Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, in 1843. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry Regiment as a first lieutenant in the Mexican-American War. Merchant in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1850. Merchant in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1860. Commissioned lieutenant colonel in the Kentucky 1st Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) on July 3, 1861. Promoted to colonel on October 14, 1861. Served as provost marshal in the vicinity of Orange Courthouse, Virginia, in March 1862. Promoted to brigadier general on November 4, 1862. Served as provost marshal in the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, on June 24, 1864. Assigned to Department of the Gulf in Mobile, Alabama, on September 16, 1864. Prisoner of war in May 1865.

Arthur W. Bergeron, Jr., "Brig. Gen. Thomas Hart Taylor." In Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass Stateedited by Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, 258-263. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 1, p. 33A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville Ward 3, p. 365.
Find A Grave, "Thomas Hart Taylor (1825-1901)," Memorial #8950, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8950 (accessed December 30, 2019).
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0079.

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