Raleigh Colston Thomas
Raleigh Colston Thomas was born on October 8, 1844, in Baltimore, Maryland, to John and Annie Thomas. His father was a physician and bank president who owned $100,000 of real estate and $300,000 of personal property by 1860. Thomas grew up and attended school in Baltimore, and he attended the University of Maryland's preparatory department in the late 1850s.
 
He sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, and he mustered in as a private in Company C of the 1st Maryland Cavalry in 1863. He served until the end of the war.
 
He returned to Baltimore after the war, and he married Mary McDonald on November 25, 1868. They had at least three children: Mary, born around 1870; Raleigh, born around 1876; and Reginald, born around 1879. He worked as a merchant, and by 1870, he owned $350,000 of real estate and $40,000 of personal property. He also employed at least two white and two Black domestic servants. He and his family travelled to Europe in 1872. His passport application described him as 5 feet, 11 ½ inches tall, with dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. He died in January 1888.
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(4600)Thomas, Raleigh Colston1844-10-081888-01
  • Conflict Side: Confederacy
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Private
  • Rank out: Private
  • Rank highest: Private
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 12

  • (4161) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 9 July 1862
  • (12866) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 24 November 186X
  • (12867) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 29 December 1863
  • (12868) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 25 May 186X
  • (12869) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 21 July 186X
  • (12870) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 21 August 1864
  • (12871) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 6 August 186X
  • (12872) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 31 August 186X
  • (12873) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 17 September 1864
  • (12874) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 17 October 186X
  • (12933) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 26 October 1864
  • (12935) [writer] ~ Raleigh C. Thomas to Annie C. Thomas, 11 November 1864

People - Records: 4

  • (4302) Thomas, Nannie Gordon is the [sibling of] (4600) Thomas, Raleigh Colston
  • (4864) Thomas, Annie Campbell is the [parent of] (4600) Thomas, Raleigh Colston
  • (5522) Gordon, Ann Eliza is the [aunt/uncle of] (4600) Thomas, Raleigh Colston
  • (5523) Thomas, John Hanson III is the [sibling of] (4600) Thomas, Raleigh Colston

Places - Records: 2

  • (180) [birth] ~ Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland
  • (99) [death] ~ Maryland

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (1067) [enlisted] [C] ~ 1st Maryland Cavalry
SOURCES

1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of Raleigh C. Thomas, available from Fold3.com; Passport Applications, 1795-1925, available from Ancestry.com