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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas B. Eades

(c. 1815 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 22nd Virginia Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 45 year old farm worker living with his father and 2 sisters on their farm at Chapel Hill in Fluvanna County, VA. He enlisted in Goochland, VA on 4 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H of the 2nd Virginia Artillery. They became Company H of the 22nd Battalion Virginia Infantry in May 1862.

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 22 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware, where he died on 7 October 1862.

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. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1815; Goochland County, VA

Death

10/07/1862; Fort Delaware, DE; burial in Finn's Point National Cemetery, Pennsville, NJ

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 34858]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #350 [AotW citation 34859]

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