1873. He is credited with being instrumental in passing legislation to complete construction of the Washington Monument (which had been halted since before the Civil War). Retirement Osborn did not run for reelection in 1872. He served as the U.S. commissioner at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1876, the first official world's fair in the United States. In his retirement, Osborn engaged in law and literature in New York City where he died in 1898. Thomas Osborn is interred at Hillside Cemetery in North Adams, Massachusetts. See also List of United States senators from Florida United States congressional delegations from Florida References Retrieved on 2008-02-14 224 pp. . Thomas Ward Osborn, The fiery trail: a Union officer's account of Sherman's last campaigns, Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1986. 238 pp. 843 pp. ASIN B0008945NG External links Thomas W. Osborn biography excerpt from the John A. Haddock book (archived copy) Major Osborn's report from the Battle of Gettysburg 1833 births 1898 deaths People from Scotch Plains, New Jersey Republican Party Florida state senators United States Army officers Union Army colonels People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Republican Party United States senators from Florida People from Wilna, New York 19th-century American politicians Military personnel from New Jersey