Tobias Gibson

In 1860 he was a 27 (24?) year old farmer on his parent's substantial place at Clinton in Hinds County, MS. He enlisted at Vicksburg, MS as 3rd Corporal of Company H, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 1 March 1862.

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

He was in hospitals in Winchester and Richmond, VA, and furloughed for 30 days on 8 October, but was back with his Company by the end of 1862. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant in March or April 1863, 4th Sergeant by September, and to 3rd and 2nd Sergeant in 1864. He was on sick furlough home after 25 October 1864 and was officially surrendered at Citronelle, AL and paroled at Jackson, MS on 20 May 1865.

In 1880 he was apparently unemployed and living with his brother William and family in Vicksburg, MS. He was afterward "connected with" Hardaway & Company in Vicksburg (his sister Emily married druggist Ben Hardaway).

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

05/05/1833; Warren County, MS

01/08/1899; Vicksburg, MS; burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, MS