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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Thomas J. Fleming

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm hand on the Nancy Cunningham place in the Hall District, Hart County, GA. He enlisted there on 24 August 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in Company B, 24th Georgia Infantry about 3 October.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by gunshots to his thigh and arm and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 1 October (or 30 September) 1862 in the US Sixth Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD.

After the War

He was originally buried in the Burkittsville town cemetery, but possibly reinterred (as T.J. Flemons) in Washington Confederate Cemetery in Hagerstown about 1877, though he is not on that burial list by name.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1840 in GA

Death

10/01/1862; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 19468]

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 30866]