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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Jefferson Curtright

(1841 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a successful planter at La Grange, Troup County, GA, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 4th Georgia Infantry on 26 April 1861 at La Grange, GA. He was promoted to 2nd Corporal on 1 July but was discharged on 12 September 1861. He reenlisted in the Company on 21 November, at Camp Jackson, VA as a Private.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. After the battle General D.H. Hill wrote in his report:

Privates Thomas S. Cartright, Joseph L. Richardson, and Henry E. Welch, Fourth Georgia, are mentioned with distinction. The first-named fell with the colors of his regiment in his hand.

References & notes

His service from Thomas,1 as Thomas R. Cartwright, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, also as Thomas S. Curtright. Personal details from family genealogists.

His brother Benjamin Franklin Curtright (1835-1905) was wounded at Sharpsburg, a Lieutenant in the 13th Georgia Infantry. Another brother, John Cornelius Curtright (b 1830) was killed at Perryville, KY in October 1862 while a Captain in the 41st Georgia Infantry.

Birth

1841 in GA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Thomas, Henry Walter, History of the Doles-Cook Brigade, Atlanta: Franklin Printing & Publishing Co., 1903, pp. 98 - 123 [AotW citation 2602]

2 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 28357]

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