| Summary: | (Uniform indicates rank of colonel.) Mexican War veteran. Commissioned as a lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Alabama Infantry at the outbreak of war. After promoting through the grades, Lomax was promoted to brigadier general in 1862. Major campaigns and battles include Seven Pines. Lomax was killed in action at Seven Pines in June 1862 and is buried in Montgomery, Alabama. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Owen, Thomas M. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. IV. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1921.
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