General Notes
SOURCES:
Jim Bales jimbales@@vtc.net, with e-mail 06/10/04 and with family information.
Mr. Bales was kind enough to send me a copy of an autobiography that Thomas wrote for his grandchildren in 1918, at the age of 86 years. He documents his life from his early childhood in and around Belfast, Ireland, his unexpected and challenging voyage to New York, and his enlistment under General William Tecumseh Sherman in the summer of 1864, when he witnessed the burning of Atlanta.
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