Orlando Thacker Hanks

He enlisted as Private, Company K, First Texas Infantry when they organized in San Augustine County, TX in May - July 1861 and mustered into Confederate service with them near Richmond, VA on 11 October 1861. He was promoted to 4th Corporal in July 1862.

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

He was left behind and captured. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 7 October 1864 and was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 12 April 1865.

Service information from Davis1 and Simpson,2 as O.T. Hanks. Sharpsburg 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.

His wartime Reminiscences, written about 1914, are in the East Texas Research Center at Stephen F Austin State University [finding aid]. Parts were edited and published in History of Captain B. F. Benton's Company, Hood's Texas Brigade, 1861-1865 (1984).

01/17/1844; San Augustine, TX

04/24/1926; San Augustine, TX; burial in Dickerson Cemetery, San Augustine, TX