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CPT Thomas Edward King

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CPT Thomas Edward King

Birth
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19 Sep 1863 (aged 34)
Burial
Roswell, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
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Confederate Veteran

Captain 7
Georgia Inf
CSA

Married Marie Clemons. They lived at Bulloch Hall in Roswell, GA. He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and was seriously wounded at the first battle of Manassas. He was a member of the staff of Brig. General Preston Smith with whom he was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. The magazine, Southern Bivouac (1887) mentions his death: "Thomas was true, noble, and unselfish - when wounded and dying, he insisted that the friends who were moving him out of the way of shells and balls, should not go farther, but lay him under a tree nearby and then return to the fight. He knew that he had done his duty and that God was with him - the testimony of a friend of him and his." Thomas had three children. 150 years later, he had over 154 known descendants. On August 23, 2008, The Sons on Confederate Veterans held a ceremony at the grave site of Thomas E. King and erected a 9 ft memorial to him.
Confederate Veteran

Captain 7
Georgia Inf
CSA

Married Marie Clemons. They lived at Bulloch Hall in Roswell, GA. He enlisted in the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and was seriously wounded at the first battle of Manassas. He was a member of the staff of Brig. General Preston Smith with whom he was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga. The magazine, Southern Bivouac (1887) mentions his death: "Thomas was true, noble, and unselfish - when wounded and dying, he insisted that the friends who were moving him out of the way of shells and balls, should not go farther, but lay him under a tree nearby and then return to the fight. He knew that he had done his duty and that God was with him - the testimony of a friend of him and his." Thomas had three children. 150 years later, he had over 154 known descendants. On August 23, 2008, The Sons on Confederate Veterans held a ceremony at the grave site of Thomas E. King and erected a 9 ft memorial to him.

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THOMAS EDWARD KING
CAPTAIN 7 GA INFANTRY CSA
FEB 26 1929 SEPT 19 1863

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