Thomas Lee

A newly married 26 year old physician at Snow Hill in Wilcox County, AL, he enlisted there on 29 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was detailed as acting Assistant Surgeon at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and later wrote home:

I was not in the battle or rather not exposed to the bullets but was stationed where the bums [bombs?] came as thick as hail to dress the wounds of the Regt. Temporarily and send them on to our Briggade hospital — Neither surgeon or assistant surgeon were present.

He was ill with heart disease, on furlough and in hospitals from February into October 1863, served as a druggist in Richmond, VA in September, and was detailed as a Hospital Steward in Richmond on 25 October 1863. He was there to at least December 1864.

By 1870 he was a physician at Carlowville, Dallas County, AL. In 1880 he was living in Snow Hill in Wilcox County and was a cottonseed dealer there by 1900.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from a letter he wrote Dr William Gully in Wilcox County from Winchester, VA on 12 October 1862; transcribed online by Sharman Burson Ramsey. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, and his widow's 1916 & 1927 Confederate pension applications, online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Penelope Scarborough (1846-1927) in January 1862; no children. Her father Addison B Scarborough died on 16 March 1864, probably in Virginia, while Lieutenant of Company D, 61st Alabama Infantry.

10/25/1836; Carlowville, AL

09/07/1907; Furman, AL; burial in Carlowville Community Cemetery, Carlowville, AL