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Confederate (CSV)

Private

T. H. Vaughan

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Robertson County as a Private in Company C, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action on 14 September 1862 on South Mountain/Boonsboro.

The rest of the War

He returned to duty and was furloughed in November 1862. He was listed as a deserter "in the face of the enemy" near Franklin Depot, VA in April 1863. He'd been captured at Suffolk, VA. He was sent to City Point, VA for exchange on . Instead of reporting to the parole camp, he went to "visit relations" in Alabama, and subsequently "attached himself" to a Mississippi cavalry unit. By March 1864 he was with a unit back in Texas, and petitioned General J.B. Magruder for permission to rejoin the 4th Texas or be allowed to transfer officially, to clear the charge of desertion. There is no further record in his CSRs.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. He's also seen at P.H. and Jas (James) Vaughan or Vaughn.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 152-153 [AotW citation 1721]

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 26634]

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