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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Jefferson Adams

(1838 - 1914)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

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

On the Campaign

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.

The rest of the War

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.

After the War

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

References & notes

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.

Birth

12/02/1838; Haywood County, TN

Death

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

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 157-158  [AotW citation 1781]