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T.S. Phillips
(c. 1828 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a married 32 year old farmer at Roanoke in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted there on 23 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 February 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 1 January 1863 and was on wounded furlough to at least February 1863. He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA and captured there on 3 July 1863. He was treated at the US Army hospital in Chster, PA and exchanged there in August. He was killed by a "stray ball on the picket line" at Turk Ridge/Creek, VA on 6 June 1864.
References & notes
His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial in Franklin, GA is on Findagrave, source also of his photograph, contributed by Mike Moon.
He married Nancy Ann Beardon (1837-1897) in 1855 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1828; Henry County, GA
Death
06/06/1864; Turk Ridge, VA
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 32841]
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 32842]