Thomas Warren Rambo

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 6 younger siblings, and 7 slaves on their farm in Brooks County, GA. He enlisted on 4 March 1862 in Quitman, GA and mustered as a Private in Company K, 50th Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded in the left shoulder and right arm by a "musket ball [which] extensively shattered the shaft of his humerus" (upper arm bone) in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and was captured there.

Surgeon J.H. Bill, USA removed the head and 4 inches of the humerus bone on 25 September. He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in Frederick, MD on 1 October [their records record his death there in December 1862]. He was paroled at Fort McHenry, MD, and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA, for exchange on 4 April 1863, arrived there on the 9th, and was received at City Point, VA on 12 April 1863. The Company Roll for 28 February 1865, the last in his file, has him absent, sick, in Brooks County, GA.

By 1870, then living next door to his widowed mother, and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Quitman in Brooks County, GA.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 which says he was wounded on 17 September, and the Patient List,4 as F.W. Rambo; both of these references say he died of wounds in December 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

he married Lucrecia Clay “Lucy” Odom (1844-1931) in February 1863 and they had 9 children.

His father James (b. 1818) was a Sergeant in Company E, 1st Georgia Reserves, was captured at Ft. McAllister, GA in December 1864, and died in February 1865 while a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD.

10/20/1843 in NC

12/26/1919; Brooks County, GA; burial in Columbia Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Nankin, GA