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Confederate (CSA)

Captain

Thomas Kirkman, Jr.

(c. 1833 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: South Carolina Military Academy (The Citadel)

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Law's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

He had been a cadet at the He was an unmarried 28 year old clerk at Florence, SC when he enlisted as Private, Company H, 4th Alabama Infantry on 28 April 1861. He was severely wounded in the thigh in action at First Manassas in July 1861, and discharged on 26 January 1862. He returned as a volunteer aide to Colonel Evander Law, date not given.

On the Campaign

From Colonel Law's Sharpsburg Report:

The members of my staff-Lieutenant Terrell, assistant adjutant-general, Captain Kirkman, Lieutenant Law, of the Citadel Academy, and Private Smith, Fourth Alabama-as usual, performed every duty bravely and efficiently.

References & notes

Service from Krick,1 as Thomas J Kirkman, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1833 in AL

Notes

1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 194 [AotW citation 17564]

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 32252]

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