George Henry Thomas (1816–1870) was one of the top four Union generals of the American Civil War. He was, in fact, the only one to successfully rout a Confederate army from the battlefield.
Thomas refused to publish his memoirs after the war, and no one thought he had written memoirs. He hadn’t, but “The Best General in the Civil War: A Novel“ by Conrad Bibens presents the life of General George Henry Thomas in the form of a fictional memoir. The novel is a manuscript about the general’s life and Civil War career written in 1870, the same year Thomas died suddenly from a stroke. It was ”discovered” in Troy, New York’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 2020.
