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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas W. Harris

(c. 1845 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 15 year old living with his parents, 7 siblings, including twin sister Sarah, and 2 or more slaves on their (probably cotton) plantation at in Tippah County, MS. Giving his age as 20, he enlisted at Canaan, MS on 15 May 1861 and mustered in Richmond, VA on 30 May as a Private in Company H, 19th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November.

He was promoted to 4th Corporal about February 1864 and was captured again, near Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He was back at Fort Delaware on 20 May and was released on 11 June 1865 when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker at Salem, MS.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870.

He married Laura Alexander (1852-) in July 1872; they'd been living together since at least 1870.

He may be the Thomas Wesley Harris (1845-1899) buried in Chulahoma, MS.

Birth

c. 1845 in AL

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34226]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: #405 [AotW citation 34227]

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