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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Thomas Jefferson Rose

(1834 - 1863)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as First Sergeant in Company G, First Texas Infantry on 23 June 1861 at Palestine, TX. He was on recruiting duty in Texas from February to April 1862 and was elected 3rd Lieutenant on 20 May 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He died in a Richmond hospital on 4 April 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson,2 who has him as T. Jeff Rose. Wound detail from a 22 September casualty list by Lt. Col. Work published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1834 in TN

Death

04/04/1863; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, Pg. 142 [AotW citation 1507]

2 Simpson, Harold Brown, Hood's Texas Brigade: a Compendium, Hillsboro: Hill Junior College Press, 1977, pg. 50 [AotW citation 20941]

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