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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Jefferson Rountree

"Jefferson"

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Known by Jefferson, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer on his wealthy father Daniel's place at Shatterfield in the Edgefield District, and he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his lower back near his spine and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 27 September (or 22 October) but died there on 7 (or 8) December 1862 of "colliquative fever" and "exhaustion" due to massive internal infection. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick."

After the War

He was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,2 as Thomas J. Roundtree, and the MSHWR.3 Service basics from Swain.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial at Mt. Olivet is on Findagrave, as Thomas J. Roundtree, and he may still be there.

He married Fannie Weights (1841-) in February 1860.

Birth

c. 1842; Edgefield District, SC

Death

12/07/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4941]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #5.231 [AotW citation 24227]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 446 [AotW citation 31438]

4 Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 623 [AotW citation 24639]

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