Thomas Lake Moore

In 1860 he was an 18 year old Furman University student living with his parents, 3 siblings, 5 other students, and 12 slaves on their plantation at Greenwood, SC. He enlisted there on 12 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

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

He was admitted to a hospital in Culpeper, VA on 24 September and furloughed home on the 27th. He was back on duty in about January 1863 and was at least slightly wounded twice more, by gunshots at Gettysburg, PA in July and at Chickamauga, GA in September 1863. He was back with his company by February 1864, promoted to 2nd Sergeant by June, and appointed First Lieutenant of Company H by the time he was surrendered and paroled with them at Greensboro, NC on 2 May 1865.

He was elected to a term in the state legislature from Abbeville County in 1876, and was Clerk of Court there for 4 years. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Ninety-Six Township in Abbeville County. In 1910 he was retired and living with his daughter Susan and her husband Berry Duncan "Bing" Phillips in Ninety Six.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, C.C. Brown's General Catalog of Furman University ... 1852-1899 (1899), the US Census of 1860, 1880 - 1910, and his obituary in the Greenwood Evening Index of 10 November 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Emma Ann Poole (1843-1878) and they had 5 children. He married again, her sister, the widow Elliotte Ettie Poole McCants (1840-1909) in 1880 and they had a son Thomas, Jr (1882-1932).

His brother Lewis M Moore (1846-1929) was also a soldier in Company B, from April 1864 to surrender at Greensboro, and a Furman student in 1859-60.

06/03/1842; Edgefield, SC

11/06/1910; Ninety Six, SC; burial in Fellowship Baptist Cemetery, Greenwood County, SC