Thomas Bird Whitted

In 1860 he was a 21 year old salesman living on his parents' plantation at Hillsborough, NC. He enlisted there on 20 April 1861 and mustered as a Corporal in the Orange Guards - Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 19 July 1861.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He returned to his Company on 1 November 1862. He was again wounded in action on 5 May 1864 at the Wilderness, VA by a gunshot to his left eye (the bullet remained in his head near his ear) and was furloughed home on 22 May. He was 2nd Sergeant when he was detached as disabled - partially blinded by his wound - to the Quartermasters Department at Hillsborough on 14 August 1864, but was was reduced to Private on 15 November. He was paroled on 15 May 1865 at Greensboro, NC.

He had his 1864 bullet extracted through the roof of his mouth in Hillsborough in 1867. In 1900 he was retired and lived in Monroeton, Rockingham County, NC.

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, his North Carolina Confederate Veteran's Pension applications of 1901 & 1905, and the US Census of 1860 & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Isabella “Belle” Scott (1849-1941) in October 1869 in Rockingham County, NC, and they had sons William Scott (later Commander, USN) and Thomas Byrd (later Colonel, USA). Belle applied for a widow's pension based on his Confederate service in 1940, then age 91.

His brothers Jehu and James were also in Company G and wounded at Sharpsburg.

04/05/1838; Hillsborough, NC

03/30/1907; Rockingham County, NC; burial in Speedwell Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Rockingham County, NC