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(1828 - 1909)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He came to Texas from Kentucky in the 1850s and in 1860 was a 32 year old farmer in Hempstead, Austin (now Waller) County, TX. He enlisted at Anderson in Grimes County as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 1862 and reported to the regiment in Virginia on 1 May. He wrote home on 19 May:
... we have had a hard time since we got with the army which was at York Town. We left there the next day for Richmond about 85 miles of as bad muddy road as I ever saw raining on us nearly all the time while we were marching no tents and part of the time nothing to eat. the Enemy after us all the way untill we got whitin a few miles of this place [Richmond, VA]. I do not no where there are now. we had two fights with them one at Williamsburg and one at West Point I was in the last engagement and killed one Yankey ...
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862
The rest of the War
He was given a 60-day "furlough of indulgence" home in February 1863, and was slightly wounded in the shoulder on 13 October 1864, probably near Petersburg, VA. He was surrendered and paroled on 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
After the War
By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Waller County, TX. He had served for at least part of that time as a constable there.
References & notes
His service from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a c. 1885 photograph of him.
He married Evaline DeBell (1829-1870) in October 1849 in Fleming County, KY and they had 9 children. He married again, Francis M. Holder "Fannie" Suggitt (1853-) in March 1879 in Waller County, TX, but they divorced in June 1881. He married, thirdly, Annie Eliza Tucker (1862-1940) in September 1884 in Waller County, and they had 3 more children, one born 1887 named for family friend, local attorney, and fellow Sharpsburg veteran John Pinckney.
More on the Web
Descendant Nick Wallingford has posted scans and transcriptions of a collection of T.G. Wallingford letters online. The first of these is a letter to his wife from Virginia in May 1862, quoted above. This is excellent material.
Birth
03/27/1828; Mason County, KY
Death
05/06/1909; Fields Store, TX; burial in Fields Store Cemetery, Fields Store, TX
1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161 [AotW citation 1868]
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 26903]