Thomas E. Rose

Rank: Colonel
Birthdate: March 12, 1830
Died on: November 6, 1907

Thomas E. Rose commanded the 77th Pennsylvania Infantry through Stones River, Chickamauga, and Kennesaw Mountain, where he was wounded. Captured at Chickamauga and held at Libby Prison in Richmond, he organized and led the famous February 1864 tunnel escape of 109 Union officers, the largest prison break of the war, though he himself was recaptured shortly afterward. Later exchanged, Rose remained in the postwar Army, retiring in 1894 as a brevet brigadier general; he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

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