Thomas F. Drayton
| Thomas Fenwick Drayton | |
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| Born |
August 24, 1809 Charleston, South Carolina |
| Died | February 18, 1891 (aged 81) Florence, South Carolina |
| Place of burial | Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1828–36 (USA), 1861–65 (CSA) |
| Rank |
 Second Lieutenant (USA) Brigadier General (CSA) |
| Battles/wars |
American Civil War - Battle of Port Royal - Battle of Thoroughfare Gap - Second Battle of Bull Run - Battle of South Mountain - Battle of Antietam |
Thomas Fenwick Drayton (August 24, 1809 – February 18, 1891) was a planter, politician, railroad president, and military officer from Charleston, South Carolina. He served in the United States Army and then as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Drayton was a native of South Carolina, most likely born in Charleston. He was the son of William Drayton, a prominent lawyer, soldier, and US Representative. In 1833, William Drayton took all the family but Thomas, who chose to stay in the South, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania following the Nullification Crisis, as he was a unionist. Thomas' grandfather, William Drayton, Sr., was a judge for the Province of East Florida (1763-1780) and appointed as the first Federal judge of the new United States District Court of South Carolina.
Drayton graduated in 1828 from the United States Military Academy, where he was a classmate of Jefferson Davis, who became his lifelong friend. Drayton was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 6th U.S. Infantry.
Four years later, Drayton resigned from the US Army and became a civil engineer for railroad construction in Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati for two years before he returned to plantation life. He was a captain in the state militia for five years.
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