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Winston, Thomas, 1829-1928
Physician Thomas Winston (1829-1928) was born in Wales, emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of two. He began his formal schooling at the age of twenty, earning his M.D. in 1858 from Chicago's Rush Medical School after a six-week course. Soon after his 1861 marriage to Caroline Mumford and the birth of their first child, Winston went to fight for the Union in the Civil War. An ardent abolitionist and a strong believer in the Union cause, he served as a physician and surgeon to Illinois' 92nd regiment. He spent 1862 and 1863 encamped in the border areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. He witnessed the battle of Chickamauga in September of 1863. His regiment also marched through Georgia in 1865, where Winston viewed the destruction wreaked by General Sherman and his men. He returned home to Illinois in 1866, where he continued to run a country practice. He also served as surgeon to the Illinois Central Railroad and invested in Western land. He spent his last years in Kansas and Nebraska after Caroline died in 1909. Winston died in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1928.
From the description of Thomas Winston papers, 1861-1945 (bulk 1861-1866). (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14318989
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Winston, Thomas F.
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Thomas F. Winston served with the First Regiment of the Tenn. Volunteers during the Mexican War. In the Civil War he served with the 53rd Tenn. Infantry. From the description of Thomas F. Winston letter : Lomento, Mexico, to James V. Ewing, Lewisburg, Tenn. : ALS, 1846 Aug. 8. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 51480868 ...
