Show MAJ GE GEN G 11 tn THOMAS ONAS aw III r co minand of the department of tile the cumberland was in in our city c a few days since looking as wal F how matters aud things are in this section of his depart 0 0 ment gen thomas ia one op alie few great dpn this war has turned up who remains modest and unpretending of and who goes ahead in the discharge of his du dux ties conducting himself like a soldier and a gentleman we regard him as second to no mana man in the service and we think his 1 record places him in the fronts ranks of our generals lie he iseko D specially ally dear to Tenness eans whoa recollect that he saved us ata mill springs at stones iziver at chickamauga and at nashville L on oil each of these occasions we wei were more in indebted to ithe cooler cool ri bravery military skill and valtin able counsel of general thonia thomas sa n than to any living man I 1 whig nr |