Robert Steel Tomme

In 1860 he was a married 26 year old blacksmith (with his brother William) at Carrollton in Carroll County, GA. He enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion. He transferred as a Private to Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry on 1 December 1861 and was appointed First Sergeant. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 3 July 1862.

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.

He was seriously wounded in the left arm at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and his arm was amputated. He was afterward absent in hospitals and on furlough. He resigned his commission in December 1863 for disability, but that does not appear to have been accepted, as he was on the company rolls to at least November 1864, then recommended for medical retirement. There is no later military record.

In 1870 he was proprietor of a liquor store, confectionary, and grocery "in the corner room at the Sims House" in La Grange, Carroll County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 also as Robert S. Tommie. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and an advertisement in the La Grange Reporter of 22 July 1870.

He married Sarah Elizabeth Johnson (1839-1918) and they had 7 childrenn between 1854 and 1876.

His brother William Washington Tomme (b. 1838) was killed in the Shenandoah Valley in May 1863 while a Sergeant in Company F of the 19th Georgia Infantry.

c. 1833; Carroll County, GA

c. 1875; in GA