Thomas Jackson East

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old farmer living with his parents and 7 siblings on their farm at Roanoke, Randolph County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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 remained on duty with his company to the battle at Davis Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864, where he was seriously wounded and lost his right leg to amputation above the knee. He had been appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 April 1864.

Then a farmer at Roanoke, AL, he applied to the state for an artificial limb in November 1875, which he received. He was still at Roanoke in 1900, then a Justice of the Peace.

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, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Pool (1847-1904) and they had 3 children. He married again, Susan "Susie" Jackson (1858-1912).

08/25/1842 in AL

01/17/1911; burial in High Pine Baptist Church Cemetery, Roanoke, AL