Thomas C. Austin

He enlisted as Private, Company O, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 6 May 1862.

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was listed on the Confederate Roll of Honor for gallantry in action at Gettysburg, PA: he was reported in hand-to-hand combat for possession of a Federal flag in the Wheatfield on 2 July 1863. He was slightly wounded in the head at Cedar Creek, VA on 19 October 1864 and absent in a Lynchburg, VA hospital by 31 December 1864 with no further military record.

His service from Graham,1 who has his death date, from Arkansas pension records, as 12 March 1916. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

1820

1914; in AR; burial in Highland Cemetery, Ozark, AR