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{{Short description|American general and physician}}
{{Infobox military person
|name= Thomas Maley Harris
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|placeofburial= Harrisville I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Harrisville, West Virginia
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|caption= Gen. Thomas Maley Harris, M.D.
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|serviceyears= 1861 - 1866
|rank= [[File:Union Army brigadier general rank insignia.svg|35px]] [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]]<br/>[[File:Union Army major general rank insignia.svg|35px]] [[Brevet (military)|Brevet]] [[Major general (United States)|Major General]]
|commands=[[10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment]]<br>Department of West Virginia (Division)
|battles= [[American Civil War]]
*[[Battle of Droop Mountain]]
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*[[Battle of Appomattox Court House]]
|laterwork=Physician, state legislator, author
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[[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln#Conspirators' trial and execution|Lincoln Conspirators' Trial and Execution]]
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'''Thomas Maley Harris''' (1817–1906) was
Born and raised in Harrisville, Virginia (now part of [[West Virginia]]), Harris originally set out to be a teacher, but changed career paths to study medicine. He received his medical degree from Louisville Medical College in 1843 and returned to Virginia to practice medicine until 1861, when he closed his practice when the Civil War began.<ref name=WVMD>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQgDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA237&dq=%22thomas+maley+harris%22&ei=wGUdS8CwAqD4yASVi7T2AQ#v=onepage&q=%22thomas%20maley%20harris%22&f=false | title= West Virginia Medical Journal, Volume 1▼
|author= | publisher= West Virginia State Medical Association | page=237 | year=1907 | isbn=}}</ref>▼
▲Born and raised in Harrisville, Virginia (now part of [[West Virginia]]), Harris originally set out to be a teacher, but changed career paths to study medicine. He received his medical degree from Louisville Medical College in 1843 and returned to Virginia to practice medicine until 1861, when he closed his practice when the Civil War began.<ref name=WVMD>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQgDAAAAYAAJ&
During the war, Harris commanded the [[10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment]] in the [[Shenandoah Valley]], then a brigade and division during [[Philip H. Sheridan|Philip Sheridan's]] [[Valley Campaigns of 1864]].<ref name="General Thomas Maley Harris">[http://www.lindapages.com/cwar/gen-tmharris.htm General Thomas Maley Harris]</ref> He was brevetted to brigadier general for service at the [[Battle of Cedar Creek]] on October 19, 1864.<ref name="Eicher p.283">Eicher p.283</ref>▼
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▲During the war, Harris commanded the [[10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment]] in the [[Shenandoah Valley]], then a brigade and division during [[Philip H. Sheridan|Philip Sheridan's]] [[Valley Campaigns of 1864]].<ref name="General Thomas Maley Harris">
He was transferred to the [[Army of the James]] and took command of a division of reinforcements from the Department of West Virginia attached to the [[XXIV Corps (ACW)|XXIV Corps]]. He received a full promotion to brigadier general in March 1865 and a brevet promotion to major general for service at the [[Battle of Petersburg III|battle of Fort Gregg]] on April 2, 1865.<ref name="Eicher p.283"/> His troops were among those directly responsible for cutting off [[Robert E. Lee]]'s line of retreat at [[battle of Appomattox Courthouse|Appomattox Courthouse]].<ref name="General Thomas Maley Harris"/> Following the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Harris served on the [[Lincoln Assassination|military commission which tried the Lincoln Conspirators]].<ref name="Eicher p.283"/> Following the trial general Harris authored two books about the trial evidences and proceedings: ''Assassination of Lincoln: A History of the Great Conspiracy, Trial of the Conspirators by a Military Commission, and a Review of the Trial of John H. Surratt'', 1892; and later: ''Rome's Responsibility for the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln'', 1897.
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[[Category:Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates]]
[[Category:Writers from West Virginia]]
[[Category:19th-century West Virginia politicians]]
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