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"Tom"
(1843 - 1937)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer on his parents' place at Snow Hill, AL. He enlisted there on 29 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 44th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. Acting Assistant Surgeon Tom Lee described it:
Tom McBryde a slight flesh wound ...
The rest of the War
He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #1 in Richmond, VA on 4 October and sent to the 3rd Alabama Hospital there on 17 October. He was there to least the end of the year. He was back in the hospital in February and March 1863, and again, with tonsillitis, in May 1863. He was promoted to 4th Corporal in May 1863 but was again on sick furlough in May and June 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a commission clerk living in James H Campbell's hotel in Mobile, AL, and by 1880 he was a salesman in a grocery store and lived with his in-laws there. He was still in Mobile in 1900 but by 1910 had moved to Dalton, GA and was bookkeeper at a planing mill. He was a Justice of the Peace and lived with his daughter Mary (Sims) and family there in 1920, and in 1930, still with the Sims and then an 85 year old widower, was a railroad watchman. He was living in Cleveland, Bradley County, TN - about 30 miles north of Dalton - at his death at age 93 in 1937.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862, as Thos. McBride. The quote above from a letter Lee 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 and the US Census of 1860-1930. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a superb post-war photograph of him.
He married Julia H Horton (1853-1923) in Mobile in 1872 and they had 2 children.
Birth
11/02/1843; Wilcox County, AL
Death
03/10/1937; Cleveland, TN; burial in West Hill Cemetery, Dalton, GA
1 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 31623]