Thomas Lunsford Lomax

From King George County, he enlisted as Private in Company K, 30th Virginia Infantry on 22 May 1861. He was sick at home August 1861 through March 1862.

He was wounded seriously wounded and his leg broken in action, and he was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was in a field hospital near Sharpsburg for weeks, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #5 at Frederick, MD on 20 October 1862 with infection and intense pain. His femur (thigh bone) was fractured near the top. He was transferred to a private home and the care of local doctor D. Johnson, of Frederick, who performed at least 3 rounds of surgery in November and December to remove pieces of dead and damaged bone leaving only a "shell". He was getting about on crutches in May 1863 and sent to City Point for exchange in June. He was discharged on 20 August 1863, and was a clerk in the War Department at Richmond to the end of the war.

He was a resident of the Confederate Home in Pikesville, MD for the last year of his life and died there on 28 February 1907.

Service information from Krick.1 Medical details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from his obituary in the Baltimore Sun of 2 March 1907 (as Thomas Lindsey Lomax) and E.L. Lomax's Genealogy of the Virginia Family of Lomax (1913). His gravesite is on FIndagrave.

10/11/1836; Fredericksburg, VA

02/28/1907; Pikesville, MD; burial in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, MD