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Confederate (CSA)

Thomas Williams Mason

(1839 - 1921)

Home State: North Carolina

Education: U of North Carolina, U of Virginia (law)

Branch of Service: Staff

Unit: Ransom's Brigade

Before Sharpsburg

From Northampton County, NC, he was a volunteer aide-de-camp to General Ransom in Maryland.

On the Campaign

From General Ransom's Report:

To the members of my staff I owe much for their prompt and untiring assistance-Captain [Thomas] Rowland, assistant adjutant-general; Lieutenant [W. E.] Brodnax, aide-de-camp; Mr. Mason, volunteer aide, and Lieutenants Ashe and Thorne, the last my ordnance officer, who were ever in the right place.

After the War

He was a lawyer and a farmer at Garysburg, NC, and in the state legislature.

References & notes

Service from Krick.1

Birth

01/03/1839; Brunswick County, VA

Death

04/15/1921; burial in Garysburg Methodist Cemetery, Garysburg, NC

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. 216 [AotW citation 17568]

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