Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.)
b. 1829-11-04 d. 1896-08-24
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.
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- White
Bibliography
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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Harris, Thomas Harvey. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210274 (November 12, 2026).
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