Thomas Bolling Manlove

In 1860 he lived in Vicksburg, MS, the 17 year old son of corn merchant and City Councilman Christopher Alexander Manlove (1813-1878). In April 1861 he enrolled in the "Jeff Davis Guards" in Vicksburg, and was elected First Lieutenant as they became Company G, 2nd Mississippi Battalion. He was promoted to Captain on 3 June 1861.

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

On 3 November 1862 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 46th which quickly became the 48th Mississippi Infantry - a regiment formed by adding Companies to the 2nd Battalion. The officers and most of the men of the regiment petitioned President Davis for his promotion to the Colonelcy in January 1863, but it did not happen. He was slightly wounded at Chancellorsville, VA in May 1863 and again, by a gunshot in May 1864, and, for the fourth time, by a gunshot to his left side, and captured, at Hatcher's Run, VA on 6 or 7 February 1865. He was paroled but captured again while in a hospital in Richmond, VA, and paroled for good on 21 April 1865.

He was owner of the Vicksburg Times 1866-67, then, briefly, the new Evening Telegraph. He afterward practiced law in Vicksburg, was briefly an editor in Waco, Texas about 1870, and was editor of two newspapers in Jackson, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi. Personal details from family genealogists, editor Lynda Lasswell Crist's notes to The Papers of Jefferson Davis (Vol. 12, 2008), and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Flora/Florida Belle Arnold (1840-1868) and they had a daughter Nancy. Her father was Ripley Allen Arnold (1817-1853), USMA 1838, Major, US Army, and founder of Fort Worth, TX; Major Arnold was killed in a duel with his post Surgeon at Fort Graham, TX.

1842; Vicksburg, MS

06/26/1880; Jackson, MS; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, MS