| Summary: | (Photograph has a colonel's insignia on his collar, but the button arrangement of a brigadier general. Although photographed many times as a general, Thompson was never promoted above the rank of lieutenant colonel.) Raised a battalion to fight for the Confederacy at the outbreak of war. Known as the "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy," Thompson and his battalion operated primarily as raiders in the Missouri-Arkansas region during the war. After the war, Thompson lived in Memphis and New Orleans. He died in in St. Joseph, Missouri, in September 1876. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 6. National Historical Society, 1991. Faust, Patricia, ed. Historical Time Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Civil War. New York: Harper, 1986.
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