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Sunday, June 12, 2022

CALCASIEU GREYS June 2022

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Brig. Gen. Thomas F. Toon

Brigadier General Thomas Fentress Toon was born June 10, 1840 in Columbus County, North Carolina. He was attending Wake Forest College when the war began in 1861 and left to join the Confederate Army. He was elected the first lieutenant of the 20th North Carolina Infantry and fought in nearly all the battles of the Army of Northern Virginia. He was wounded severely on March 25, 1865, at the Battle of Fort Stedman and was recuperating when the war ended. He was promoted to brigadier general in 1864. Following the war, Toon returned to North Carolina and in 1900 was elected superintendent of public education for North Carolina. Toon died at Raleigh, N.C. on Feb. 19, 1902, and was buried in Historic Oakwood Cemetery there.




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