Military Monday – Pvt. Thomas F. Davis

Thomas Franklin Davis, age 20 [1][2]

Pvt, Co. E, 21^st SC Infantry

December 20, 1861, enlisted by Captain B. T. Davis at Chesterfield, SC

22 July 1861 – Transferred at Morris Island to 2 Battalion Sharpshooters

27 Dec 1862 - Transferred back to Co. E, 21^st SC Infantry

July –Aug 1863 – listed as sick

Sept – Oct 1863 – absent, sick at Hospital

Nov – Dec 1863 – Sick at Hospital

Jan – Feb 1863 – absent, sick at Hospital

Jan – Feb 1864 – At general Hospital No. 2 (also called Hospital Encampment) Summerville, SC; no listing as to his status at this time.

April 30-1864 – Aug 31 1864 Muster Roll shows that he was taken prisoner on 24 June 1864.

He was captured near Petersburg, Virginia on 24 June 1864, his military records shows that he was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland.

March 2, 1865 – He was parole at Elmira, NY in a prisoner exchange and sent to James Rivers, Va.

At the time of his release, he had been held prisoner for 8 months 13 days.

9 March 1865 – He was received at Wayside Hospital or General Hospital No. 9, Richmond, Va.  

9 May 1865 – Surrender document signed at Appomattox, Virginia – The War is Over

It would be another 2 months before all prisoners were released and sent home to their families

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Thomas Franklin Davis is my 2^nd great grand Uncle.

He is the son of Michael Davis and Hulda Rivers Davis, my 3^rd great grandparents. Thomas was born 16 Feb 1841 and died 14 Feb 1915. He married Rosa Carolina Massey just after returning from the war in 1865. He is buried with his parents in Zoar Cemetery, Chesterfield County, South Carolina. [3]

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[1] Ancestry, "Civil War Service Records" database, (http://www.fold3.com : accessed 30 May 2012), entry for Thomas F. Davis, Private; Co. E, 21st SC Infantry; Confederate.

[2] Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the War of Succession (Camden, SC 29020: Jim Fox Books, 1997 (Reprint)), page 408.

[3] Jim Tipton, Find A Grave, digital image, http://www.findagrave.com; Headstone for Pvt Thomas Franklin Davis; (16 February 1841–14 February 1915); Memorial # 48051005; Record of the Zoar United Methodist Church Cemetery; Brocks Mill, Chesterfield County, South Carolina, USA; Accessed on 29 August 2011. Photo of Tombstone courtesy of Julious Burr.