Thomas Muldrup Logan (November 3, 1840 – August 11, 1914) was an American soldier and businessman. He served as a

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general during the American Civil War, and afterward was greatly involved in railroad development in the Southern United States.

Early life and career

Thomas M. Logan was born in 1840 in

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. Logan's family is of ancient Scottish descent. He was the son of George William Logan, a local judge, and Anna D'Oyley Glover; a sister was the painter

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. His great-great grandfather was Christian Thomassen Muldrup, His Danish Majesty's Consul for Scotland and the North of England, born 1721 and married to Honoria Bray. Logan received his education at South Carolina College, located in

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. He graduated in 1860, standing first in his class.Warner, pp. 189-90.

Civil War service

When the American Civil War began in 1861, Logan chose to follow his home state of South Carolina and the Confederate cause. He volunteered for the

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, which participated in the

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on April 12–13. Later that month he was appointed a

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in the Confederate Army, and in May he was promoted to first lieutenant and joined Wade Hampton's Legion. Logan was assigned to Company A of the unit, which had been formed in Charleston.Eicher, p. 352. Following the Confederate victory at the First Battle of Bull Run in July, Logan was promoted to the rank of

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.Warner, p. 190. He fought during the Seven Days Battles in the spring of 1862, and was wounded in a foot at the Battle of Gaines' Mill on June 27. Logan also fought during the

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on August 28–30. He was cited for "great bravery" during the

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on September 17, and was promoted to

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from that date. That December Logan was promoted to the rank of

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. Logan served in Brig. Gen.

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brigade in 1863, taking part in the Suffolk Operations that spring. He then went with the rest of the First Corps units to the Western Theater. Logan participated in the Battle of Chickamauga and Knoxville Campaign that winter, missing the Battle of Chattanooga. On May 19, 1864, Logan was promoted to colonel. Logan was wounded for the second time during the Battle of Riddells' Shop on June 13, 1864. He was appointed a temporary brigadier general on December 1, but it was not confirmed by the Confederate Congress, and reverted to a colonel. However, during that short time Logan was the youngest general officer in the Confederate Army. In early 1865 Logan served with Hampton during the Carolinas Campaign, and was promoted to brigadier general on February 15. He served in

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as well as fighting in the Battle of Bentonville from March 19–21. Logan surrendered along with the rest of Hampton's forces on April 9, and was paroled on May 1 from Greensboro, North Carolina.Wright, p. 125.

Postbellum career

After the end of the war in 1865, Logan returned home to his civilian life. That May he borrowed $5 USD from a friend and married Kate Virginia Cox (1840–1915), the daughter of James H. Cox, a judge from Chesterfield County, Virginia. The couple would have nine children, but were survived by only a son and three daughters.ABuilder of the New South, Lily Logan Morrill, The Christopher Publishing House, 1940. Logan began to study law and entered into the railroad industry. After the Civil War, he became president of the Port Walthall spur line of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad. The spur was destroyed in the War and never restored. He was then the "principal organizer" of what would become the Southern Railway, and was often associated in businesses with American industrialist/philanthropist John D. Rockefeller. Entering politics as well, Logan was part of the Virginia Democratic Executive Committee in 1879 and the Virginia "Gold Democrat" party in 1896, serving both as their chairman. Logan died in 1914 at his apartment in New York City,

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, due to a "complication of diseases." His body was buried in Hollywood Cemetery, located in

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, following a funeral on August 12.

Notes

References

* Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, ''Civil War High Commands.'' Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . * * Sifakis, Stewart. ''Who Was Who in the Civil War.'' New York: Facts On File, 1988. . * Warner, Ezra J. ''Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . * Wright, Marcus J.
''General Officers of the Confederate Army: Officers of the Executive Departments of the Confederate States, Members of the Confederate Congress by States''
Mattituck, NY: J. M. Carroll & Co., 1983. . First published 1911 by Neale Publishing Co.
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''New York Times'' newspaper obituary of Logan, originally published on page 9 on Wed. August 12, 1914.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Logan, Thomas M. Confederate States Army brigadier generals People of South Carolina in the American Civil War 1840 births 1914 deaths Burials at Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)