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SNEAD, Thomas Lowndes, soldier, born in Henrico county, Virginia, 10 January, 1828. He was graduated at Richmond college in 1846 and at the University of Virginia in 1848, was admitted to the bar, and removed in 1850 to St. Louis, where he was editor and proprietor of the " Bulletin" in 1860-'1. He was aide-de-camp of Governor Claiborne F. Jackson, and adjutant-general of the Missouri state guard in 1861, and as such was in the battles of Booneville, Carthage, Wilson's Creek, and Lexington. He was commissioned from Missouri to negotiate a military convention with the Confederate states in October, 1861, became assistant adjutant-general in the Confederate army, served with Price in Arkansas, Missouri, and Mississippi, and was elected to the Confederate congress by Missouri soldiers in May, 1864. He removed to New York in 1865, was managing editor of the "Daily News" in 1865-'6, and was admitted to the bar of New York in 1866. He has published the first volume of a projected history of the war in the trans-Mississippi department, entitled " The Fight for Missouri" (New York, 1886).
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