Thomas Ransom Fain

He was an unmarried 21 year old farmer from Squash Valley, TN when he enlisted as Private on 28 April 1861 in Company H, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was present at most engagements from First to Second Manassas, VA.

Present in action at Boonsboro and Sharpsburg.

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was in action from Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862 to the Knoxville, TN Campaign. Noted (date not given): sent out as guard to forage train in East Tenn. supposed to have deserted, dropped from the roll 1864/06/04. He served in a Federal unit, the 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry, as a Private in Company G, from some time in 1864 to June 1865.

He married and was living in Freestone County, TX in 1868, and moved to Walker County in 1871. By 1880 he and his family were in Bell County. By 1896, when his wife Mary Ann (Mollie) Butler Fain died, he was living in North Zulch, Madison County.

Basic information from State of Alabama1, which lists him as T.R. Fain. His US service from the Soldiers and Sailors database.2 Details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/09/1839 in TN

1924; Killeen, TX; burial in Killeen City Cemetery, Killeen, TX