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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Thomas M. Breed

(c. 1834 - 1915)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer at Griffin in Spalding County, GA. He enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company C, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.

On the Campaign

He was promoted to First Lieutenant at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at Griffin, GA on furlough to at least February 1863 and resigned due to "physical disability" on 5 March 1863.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer in Union Parish, LA.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900.

He married Martha Nutt (1839-) in October 1858 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1834 in GA

Death

12/05/1915; Beneise, Union Parish, LA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7236]

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 27875]

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