Lt. Col. Thomas Levingston Bayne, (CSA)

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Biography on page 70 in the book "Staff Officers in Gray" by Robert E. L. Krick.

"...Grew up in Alabama. att. Yale. New Orleans lawyer, 1845-1891. Pvt. 5th Co. Washington Arty. (La.) WIA in shoulder at Shiloh. Capt. 00 to Gorgas, Aug. 16, 1862. Maj. 00, June 18, 1863. Lt. Col. oo, Feb. 19, 1864. Chief of "Bureau of Foreigh Supples," 1864-1865. m. Anna Maria Gayle, a daughter of Alabama's governor. d. New Orleans, Dec. 10, 1891. bur. Magnolia Cem., Mobile, Alabama."

BAYNE, Thomas Levingston, attorney. Born, Clinton, Ga., August 4, 1824; son of Charles Bayne and Elizabeth Bowen. Married, December 22, 1853, Anna Maria Gayle (1835-1879), daughter of Gov. John Gayle of Alabama.

Six children reached maturity: Mary Aiken (b. 1855); Charles Bowen (b. 1861); Edith (b. 1863), married George Denègre (q.v.); Thomas, Jr. (b. 1865); Amelia Elizabeth (b. 1868), married Stanhope Jones (q.v.); and Hugh Aiken (b. 1870).

Education: Yale University, B. A., 1847; read law in firm of Slidell & Clark, firm later Clark & Bayne, later Bayne, Denègre & Bayne, later Denègre, Leovy & Chaffe, now Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy.

Enlisted in Washington Artillery, 1862; wounded at Shiloh; later lieutenant colonel, C.S.A., stationed in Richmond as chief of Bureau of Foreign Supplies. After war, rebuilt law practice; leader in New Orleans bar; vice president, American Bar Association. Active in civic affairs; particularly interested in assisting veterans and ridding the city of carpetbag rule.

Died, New Orleans, December 10, 1891. G.D. Sources: Newspaper articles and family papers compiled by Hugh A. Bayne (unpublished), deposited in Yale University Library.