Theodore Adolphus Rouse

In 1860 he was an unmarried 19 year old farmhand living with the widow Napier, her family, and slaves at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 27 September and returned to duty on 29 October 1862. He was away from his company on detail as a teamster by July 1863, possibly captured at Gettysburg, PA, and a prisoner, at least briefly, at Fort Delaware by 7 July 1863. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and on furlough through October but was back with his company at Mine Run, VA on 27 November 1863 and on to Davis' Farm near Petersburg, VA on 19 August 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Concord in Coosa County, AL and by 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed at Buycksville in Elmore County. He was retired and living with son J. Stephens Rouse and family there in 1920.

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 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Lucy Stephens (1844-1911) in January 1867 and they had 10 children.

02/02/1842; Callodenville, GA

11/04/1925; Elmore County, AL; burial in Antioch Baptist Church Cemetery, Weoka, AL