Thomas Washington Barksdale

Age 27, from Indian Hill, Abbeville District, he enlisted as a Private in Company C, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 12 June 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left hand at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was held at the DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor and paroled on 7 September 1863. He was then at the Episcopal Church Hospital in Williamsburg, VA to 13 September. He returned to duty but was killed at 3 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.

His service from Swain.1 His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Indiana Beatty (1836-1905) in January 1862 and they had 2 daughters, Mary and Sallie. Indiana is sometimes seen as Ida Battle.

02/12/1835; Abbeville District, SC

06/03/1864; Cold Harbor, VA