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(1840 - 1882)
Home State: South Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 20 year old overseer living with his father Edward and 5 older sisters on their prosperous plantation at Chesterfield Court House in the Chesterfield District, SC. He enlisted on 14 April 1861 at Cheraw, SC and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company C, 8th South Carolina Infantry. He was promoted to First Corporal on 15 July 1861 and elected Brevet 2nd/3rd Lieutenant on 2 July 1862.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a piece of shell to his left shoulder and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was sent to the Locust Spring field hospital on the Geeting farm near Keedysville where volunteer surgeon Dr. David S. Conant removed the shattered head of his humerus (upper arm) bone on 18 September.
The rest of the War
He was at Locust Spring to 2 January 1863, then sent to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD. On 4 March 1863 he was transferred to the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore, to Fort McHenry on the 6th, and was exchanged at Aikens' Landing, VA on about 13 March (to date from 8 November 1862). He was admitted to a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 18 March and was sent home to Chesterfield on furlough on 1 (or 7) April 1863. While still absent he was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 22 July 1863, but by December 1863, still at home, he was listed as permanently disabled. By the end of December 1864 he was still on his company's rolls, listed as "ought to be retired."
After the War
In 1870 he was back at Chesterfield Court House, living with 3 sisters, and was Clerk of Court there. By 1880 he was a farmer in Chesterfield, with his own family; his sisters Mary and Caroline still lived with him.
References & notes
His service from the Rolls,1 as Thomas F. Malloy, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List 3 and the MSHWR,4 as T.F. Mallory. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Laura Estelle Craig (1853-) and they had 6 children between 1872 and 1881, losing the first two in infancy.
Birth
05/09/1840; Chesterfield, SC
Death
09/28/1882; Chesterfield, SC; burial in Chesterfield Cemetery, Chesterfield, SC
1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company C, 8th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24253]
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 32176]
3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #9.504 [AotW citation 24255]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 558 [AotW citation 32177]