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(1836 - 1916)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
From La Grange, Troup County, GA, he enlisted as a Private in Company K, 13th Georgia Infantry on 8 July 1861 at Griffin, GA.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to his left lower leg, breaking his fibula and damaging the tibia, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on furlough home, which was extended by a medical board at Dalton, GA on 8 December 1863 due to atrophy of his left leg, and was discharged for disability at Orange Court House, VA on 10 March 1864.
After the War
In 1888 his doctor noted in an addendum to Thomas' pension application, that "the [left] leg of the applicant is not entirely useless for it is better than no leg." By 1900 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Mountville, Troup County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from his various pension application between 1888 and 1912, online from the Georgia Archives, family genealogists, and the US Census of 1900 and 1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married E Owens () in January 1870 and they had at least 7 children.
Birth
06/18/1836; Troup County, GA
Death
03/14/1916; burial in Cox Cemetery, Troup County, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7319]
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 28355]