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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas S. Wallace

(c. 1810 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 51 year old brick mason, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861. He was detailed as a butcher to the regimental Quartermaster from January to July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while acting as a nurse to wounded troops.

The rest of the War

While a prisoner he continued as a nurse and was briefly at US Army General Hospital #5 in Frederick, MD on 15 and 16 October. He was ill and/or a nurse at Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA later in October and into November; sent back to his regiment on 21 (or 24) November 1862. He was on detail to the Quartermaster again from January into March 1864 and had a certificate of disability issued in March 1864, but remained in service to at least the end of 1864, probably in Richmond - and probably with the CSA Quartermaster's Department. He gave is age then as 54 years old.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. His time in Frederick, MD is also seen on the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1810; Louisville, KY

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316  [AotW citation 1654]

2   US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927  [AotW citation 26597]

3   National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #1.096  [AotW citation 26598]