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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John F. Hoomes

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Harrisburg, TX as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 8 (or 10) August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September, but was sick at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was captured at Suffolk, VA in May 1863 and paroled for exchange at Fortress Monroe, VA on 13 May. He was captured again, on the Gettysburg Campaign, at Cashtown, PA on 3 July 1863, and sent to Fort Delaware, but he escaped, date not given and returned to his Company. He was granted a 90 day furlough in February 1864, was listed as absent without leave in June, but was on duty again by August 1864. He was in a Richmond hospital in February and March 1865 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as J.F. Hoomes, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as J.F. Homes. Polley 3 has him as J.F.N. Holmes.

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1734]

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 26832]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 321 [AotW citation 26833]

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