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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Isaac W. Thomas

"Gotch"

(1845 - 1935)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 19 July 1861. He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital with pneumonia in March and April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap (near Boonsboro) on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was back with his Company by the end of the year but was absent, sick in Richmond again from February to April 1863. He listed as present on the Company roll for May and June 1863, but there's no later military record. He may have deserted from East Tennessee over the winter of 1863-64 and gone home to Texas.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as J.W. Thomas, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His nickname from Polley.3 East Tennessee detail from the TXGenWeb's Grimes County Civil War Veterans. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/1845 in AL

Death

02/19/1935; in TX; burial in Willow Oak B.C. Cemetery, Gilmer, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1865]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26708]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 327 [AotW citation 26709]

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