Thomas H. Mathewson

In 1860 he was a 17 year old student living on the Thomas Owen farm at New Hope/Whitesburg in Madison County, AL. He enlisted in Huntsville, AL on 26 April 1861 and mustered in Lynchburg, VA on 7 May as a Private in Company F, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded by a gunshot to his foot at Gaines' Mill, VA on 27 June 1862.

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

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 9 October, sent to the parole camp on 18 October, and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

He was wounded at Chickamauga, GA on 19 September 1863 but was back on duty by the end of the year. He was captured again, in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 14 March 1865, then exchanged with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer at Florence in Lauderdale County, AL but by 1880 was farming in Navarro County, TX. He moved to Limestone County, TX shortly after and was a farmer at Mexia, TX to at least 1900. He filed for a pension there in August 1907 because he had "68 acres of worn out sandy land with Bermuda grass nearly all over it" and said he was "unable to farm."

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, the US Census of 1860-1900, and his 1907 pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah M. Wilkerson (1836-1902) in March 1868 and they had 3 children.

1841 in AL

01/09/1910; Limestone County, TX; burial in Bethel Cemetery, Limestone County, TX