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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Thomas P. W. Bullard

(c. 1830 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 30 year old overseer James Hogge's farm at Haralson in Coweta County, GA. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 3rd Corporal of Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was promoted to 5th Sergeant to date from the 17th "for meritorious conduct on the battle field."

The rest of the War

He was absent, sick, during the Gettysburg Campaign of July 1863, but was otherwise with his company until he was killed at the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864.

After the War

His father Jeremy/Germany G. Bullard filed for his final pay in February 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

His brother Jarmony Byrd Bullard (1837-1927) was also in Company F and may have been with him at Sharpsburg.

Birth

c. 1830 in GA

Death

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA

Notes

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 32372]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32373]

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