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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Anderson Glascock

"Tom"

(1836 - 1926)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company B, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was not on South Mountain on 14 September but was wounded by a gunshot to his right leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent from his Company in hospitals in Richmond, VA and on furlough to August 1863, then listed as absent without leave. He probably served with a local militia unit in Texas and was paroled in Austin on 28 July 1865.

After the War

He moved to Stephens County, TX in 1876 and by 1880 he was a laborer there. In 1920, then 80 years old, he was living in Runnells, TX with his daughter Mary and son-in-law Arthur Fairey's family.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880 and 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Harriett Elizabeth Bratton (1847-1887) in December 1868 and they had 4 daughters and a son, Robert E. Lee Glascock (1874-1946).

Birth

08/29/1836; Bastrop County, TX

Death

09/21/1926; Post, TX; burial in Terrace Cemetery, Post, TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 150 - 152  [AotW citation 1670]

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 26605]