Thomas B. Williams

In 1860 he was an unmarried 25 year old farmer living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 2 slaves in their farm at Milltown in Chambers County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 13th Alabama Infantry.

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

He transferred as a Private to Company A of the 14th Alabama Infantry in exchange for L.M. Freeman on 1 April 1863 at Fredericksburg, VA. He was wounded by a gunshot, his left arm broken below the shoulder, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was disabled for further field service. He was in hospitals and on furlough home until formally retired to the Invalid Corps on 21 June 1864, and was paroled at Griffin, GA in May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker on his parents' place (or next door with 2 brothers) at Copper Mine in Clay County, AL but by 1880, still with his parents, was at Weogufka in Coosa County. In 1885 he was farming in Chilton County, AL, in Coffee County by 1887, in Covington County in 1889, in Pike County by 1891 to at least 1893, and by 1894 and to at least 1900 was a farmer at Luverne in Crenshaw County, AL, then living with 4 siblings.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Details from the US Census of 1860-1900 and his 1887 and later Alabama Confederate pension applications. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

06/21/1835 in GA

01/13/1909; in AL; burial in Rocky Mount Cemetery, Highland Home, AL