Thomas Jefferson Strong

An unmarried 24 year old farmer from Oakfuskie, AL, he enlisted in Randolph County, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 19 July a Private in Company D, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was appointed 3rd Sergeant on 1 August 1862.

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

He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 2 October and furloughed home on 13 October 1862. By then First Sergeant, he was elected Junior 2nd/3rd Lieutenant on 23 December 1862. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863 and was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 8 July 1863, when he was transferred to Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH. He was sent to Point Lookout, MD on 14 March 1865 for exchange, with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Cleburne County, AL but by 1900 he was a farmer in Erath County, TX.

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 1870-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Alma Ligon (1838-1922) and they had 7 children between 1867 and 1880.

09/15/1835; Cleburne County, AL

12/16/1913; Alexander, TX; burial in Upper Greens Creek Cemetery, Dublin, TX