Thomas Harvey Harris

Birth Date

1829-11-04

Death Date

1896-08-24

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, native. Married to Eliza Sullivan Harris. Father of Margaret Harris. Bookkeeper in Jefferson County, Indiana in 1860. Served as a captain and lieutenant colonel assigned as an Assistant Adjutant General of Volunteers in the Union Army's XVI Corps from July 17, 1862 to August 1, 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Jefferson County, Madison, p. 442.
"Col. Thomas H. Harris Dead," The Rushville Republican ( Rushville, IN), August 28, 1896, p. 4.
Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 504.

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