Thomas Henry Loftis

In 1860 he was a 15 year old laborer living with D.J. Paschal and family at Lawsonville in Rockingham County, NC. He enlisted there on 5 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 31 August. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was wounded at Williamsburg, VA on 5 May 1862 and at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July.

He was with his company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and suffered a flesh wound by a gunshot to the left side of his chest at Sharpsburg on 16 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 1 October and furloughed for 30 days on 6 October. He returned to duty in November and was wounded yet again, shot through the body at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and by a gunshot (through his left leg?) in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He was admitted to a hospital in Charlottesville, VA on 7 May and furloughed home on 30 June. He was retired to the Invalid Corps for disability on 23 November 1864 and was listed as paroled at Greensboro, NC on 4 May.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer near Reidsville in Rockingham County, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, also as Henry T. Loftis, and his 1901 Confederate pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha Ann Murphy (1853-1908) in March 1870 and they had at least 14 children.

07/04/1844 in VA

04/11/1919; Rockingham County, NC; burial in Lowes United Methodist Church Cemetery, Reidsville, NC