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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Thomas C. Dillard

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Montgomery County, TX as a Private in Company H, 4th Texas Infantry on 10 March 1862 and was appointed 5th Sergeant by August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He resigned his Sergeant's position on 15 October 1862 and was again a Private. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, briefly at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, then held at Fort Delaware. He was sent to Point Lookout, MD on 26 October 1863 and admitted to Hammond Hospital there with scorbutus (scurvy).

He was returned to the general prisoner population there on 15 January 1864 and finally exchanged on 3 March. He was promoted to 2nd Corporal to date from 6 May 1864 but was again a Private when he was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as T.C. Dillon.

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 159 - 161  [AotW citation 1875]

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 26905]