Background
The son of a physician and the grandson of Confederate General James Longstreet"s chief of staff Major TJ Goree, John Thomason enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 6 April 1917 and served until his death in 1944.
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The Doughboys were the American soldiers who entered the Great War in the last year of the conflict; and of their number the Marine Corps were the absolute elite. The author of this episodic but vivid series of sketches, John W. Thomason, was a Captain in the Corps, descended from a distinguished Southern military family. A natural writer, his colloquial account follows the Marines through France, giving an account of their most famous- and bloodiest - actions, including the Argonne Forest, Belleau Wood, Chateau Thierry, Mont Blanc and St Mihiel. As well as the fighting itself, Thomason is good on off-duty anecdotes. First-hand American accounts of the Great War are rare. This is one of the best. It is profusely illustrated by the author’s own excellent drawings
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The Reverend Praxiteles Swan was a fire-eating, redheaded Man of God who became a roaring Captain of Infantry in the Army of Northern Virginia. Here, in some of the most stirring pages ever written about the Confederacy, live again the men who fought and died at Manassas, the Wilderness, Antietam, and Gettysburg. From Inside Front Cover: Antietam. It was all a musketry fight, in dust and thick smoke. Plunging forms appeared over your sights, you fired, drew cartridge, bit cartridge, poured the powder down the muzzle, plied your ramrod, capped your piece, fired, and did it all over again. Men had grotesque black powder rings around their mouths. Men fired standing, to see over the smoke, or squatting, to see under it, or kneeled and fired straight into it.
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(By John W. Thomason, Jr., previous author of six historic...)
By John W. Thomason, Jr., previous author of six historically related books, many with a Texas background. Illustrated with line drawings by the author. From the back flap: "No man knows the character of the people of the arm of Northern Virginia as does John Thomason; no on can write more excitingly of the War Between the States, or communicate so fully the humor and curious individualism of the Southern soldier. Herein the Confederacy lives again.
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Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering on front cover and spine. No dust Jacket. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1935. 499 pages. Black and white illustrations.
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The son of a physician and the grandson of Confederate General James Longstreet"s chief of staff Major TJ Goree, John Thomason enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on 6 April 1917 and served until his death in 1944.
Student Southwestern University, Texas, 1909-1910, Sam Houston Normal Institute, Huntsville, Texas, 1910-1911, University of Texas, 1912-1913, Art Students League, New New York 1913-1915 Army War College 1937 Navy War College, 1938. Doctor of Letters, Southwestern University, 1938. Honorary Doctor of Letters, Southwestern U.
In 1917 Thomason married Leda Bass. They had one son, John "Jack" West Thomason III, born in 1920. After serving as a Marine in World World War II, Jack died in an airplane crash in Calcutta, India, in 1947.
Thomason served in Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua.
He led the Horse Marines at the Legation in Peking, commanded the 38th Company in China, commanded the Marine Detachment of the United States Ship Rochester (California-2), and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel commanding the 2nd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment at San Diego, then was assigned to the Office of Naval Intelligence prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. At the beginning of American involvement in World World War II, Thomason was assigned to Admiral Chester Nimitz"s staff as an inspector of Marine installations and visited Guadalcanal during the fighting.
The United States Navy destroyer United States Ship John West. Thomason (Doctor of Divinity-760) was named after him. Stallings introduced him to the editor of Scribner"s Magazine who engaged Thomason to write and illustrate for the magazine whilst remaining on active duty with the Marine Corps.
(The Doughboys were the American soldiers who entered the ...)
(The Reverend Praxiteles Swan was a fire-eating, redheaded...)
(By John W. Thomason, Jr., previous author of six historic...)
(Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering on front cover ...)
Member Kappa Sigma; member Phi Beta Kappa. Mason.; Clubs: Army and Navy, Army, Navy and Marine Corps Country, Peking, Chevy Chase, Metropolitan.
Married Leda Bass, August 24, 1917.