Thomas Jefferson Adams

He enlisted at Columbus, Colorado County, TX as a Private in Company F, 4th Texas Infantry on 10 April 1862.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded - "shot through the forehead and body" - and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September and probably exchanged in October. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 24 October and furloughed on 21 November 1862. He was absent on furlough in Columbus, TX to mid-1863, then listed as disabled from wounds and absent without leave, his furlough having expired. He was paroled at Columbus on 3 August 1865.

Known as Uncle Tom, he was a farmer near Weimar in Colorado County, TX "for many years."

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Wound descriptions are his own, from a piece in the Weimar Mercury of 25 September 1908 [transcribed by TXGenWeb]. Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his birthplace as Memphis, TN, and his obituary in the Mercury of 30 January 1914 [transcription]. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

12/02/1838; Haywood County, TN

01/23/1914; San Antonio, TX; burial in Weimar Masonic Cemetery, Weimar, TX