Thomas James Ireland

He enlisted in Company C as Private - September 7, 1861.

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

Wounded and captured at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862. Paroled on December 17th and fuloughed from the General Hospital in Farmville, VA to June 1863. He spent part of that time in Chimborazo Hospital, Richmond, VA. Detailed on light duty at Jackson Hospital in Richmond to April 1864. Discharged by order of General Robert E. Lee, April 27, 1864. On list of troops surrendered at Tallahassee, FL on 13 May 1865 - being paroled at Thomasville, GA.

He was living on a pension in Washington County, FL in 1909. He may have married his second wife Mary Dean there in 1899.

Basic information from Henderson1. Details from his service records at the National Archives, which list him as age 22 in 1861. At the time of his capture at Fredericksburg he was listed as 6 feet, 1 1/2 inches tall, dark hair, hazel eyes, and a light complexion. Further detail from family genealogists and his gravesite on Findagrave.

1839

Date not known; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Chipley, FL