Presley F. Thomason

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents, brother Preble, and Grandmother Martha Thomason on their small farm at Newlight in Wake County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 15 July 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 10 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September, was a prisoner at Fort McHenry in Baltimore by 9 October, and was sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 11 October.

He returned to his company in about January 1863. He was sick in hospitals in Culpeper and Farmville, VA in June 1863 and home on furlough from 4 July to at least the end of the year. He was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, and was at Point Lookout, MD by 18 May. He was transferred to the prison at Elmira, NY on 14 August and took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 27 June 1865 and was released. He was provided transportation to Raleigh, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, indexed under Presley Y. Thomason. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860 and his widow Elvie's 1921 Confederate pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elvia Glenn (1833-1923) in December 1870.

05/18/1842 in NC

07/01/1920; burial in Soapstone United Methodist Church Cemetery, Raleigh, NC