Crittenden, Thomas T. -- Brigadier General

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Crittenden, Thomas T. -- Brigadier General

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National Archives at Washington, D.C

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National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Crittenden, Thomas Turpin, 1825-1905

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Crittenden was born in Huntsville, Alabama, but his family moved to Texas shortly thereafter. He was a nephew of Senator John J. Crittenden of Kentucky, and a first cousin of Confederate general George B. Crittenden and Union general Thomas L. Crittenden. He grew up in Texas and attended Transylvania College at Lexington, Kentucky. He practiced law in Missouri until the outbreak of the Mexican–American War in 1846, when he enlisted in a Missouri volunteer regiment and was made a second lieutenan...