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- Info on these Woodfins Samuel Chase , Moses, Thomas and Hugh White in the Civil War: "The Woodfin Boys of Rutherford County" http://cwprivates.blogspot.com/search/label/Woodfin:
Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg and his Army of Tennessee camped below Nashville near Murfreesboro in Rutherford County. Bragg's troops included all four of the Woodfin brothers, who were now preparing to defend their home county. Tom, the youngest of the four, was said to be the one most eager to go to war. Family history describes how Tom would carve weapons from cedar branches to play soldier in the years before the war and that he was allowed to enlist, despite his young age, because of his "military bearing".
But Tom was lost before he saw his first battle. In December of 1862, just a month after he had enlisted, the Woodfin brothers were camped in the ruins of an abandoned flour mill on the banks of the Stones River just outside Murfreesboro. Finding themselves short of food, they collected dried bits of flour from the rafters of the old mill, mixed it with river water, and made crude biscuits that they toasted on bayonets over a campfire.
The next day, Dec. 2, Thomas complained of stomach pains and by evening he was dead. According to an 1863 muster record, the cause of death was "fever." The more likely cause was botulism. That night, the surviving brothers got permission to borrow an ambulance wagon to take the body of their younger brother home to Fosterville about 20 miles away. They buried Thomas in or near the family cemetery and returned to their units in time for roll call the next morning. The short and painful trip home would be the last time the three sons would see their parents.
- https://www.nps.gov/stri/learn/historyculture/upload/Woodfin_T_S_Military_Records_Transcription_508.pdf
T. S. Woodfin Military Records
Card Numbers Form
Woodfin, T.S.
Co. F, 18 Tennessee Inf.
Became part of 4 Consol’d [sic] Reg’t [sic] Tenn. Inf. About Apr. 9, ’65.
(Confederate.)
Private Private
CARD NUMBERS.
1 49931194
2 1269
3 1500
[lines 4 through 38 are blank]
Number of medical cards herein 0
Number of personal papers herein 0
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Company Muster Roll Form for January and February 1863
(Confederate.)
W 18 Tenn.
T S Woodfin
Pvt, Co. F, 18 Reg’t [sic]Tennessee Infantry.
Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above, for Jan and Feb,
1863.
Enlisted:
When Nov 4, 1862.
Where Lavergne
By whom Bultes
Period [blank]
Last paid:
By whom Pay from enrollment
To what time [blank], 186 [blank]
Present or absent [blank]
Remarks Died at Murfreesboro Dec 2 1862
The 18th Regiment Tennessee Infantry was organized for State service June 11, 1861,
and transferred to the service of the Confederate States August 7, 1861. It was
captured at Ft. Donelson, Tenn., February 16, 1862, released at Vicksburg, Miss.,
September 23, 1862; re-organized September 26, 1862, and declared exchanged at
Aiken’s Landing Nov. 10, 1862. It was temporarily consolidated with the 26th Regiment
Tennessee Infantry on October 8, 1863, but each company of the two organizations
was mustered separately and under its original designation during the period covered
by this consolidation.
About April 9, 1865, the 2d, 3d, 10th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 26th, 30th, 32d, 37th, and 45th
Regiments and the 23d Battalion Tennessee Infantry were consolidated and formed the
4th Consolidated Regiment Tennessee Infantry, which was paroled at Greensboro, N.
C. May 1, 1865.
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Copyist.
Company Muster Roll Form for March and April 1863
(Confederate.)
W 18 Tenn.
T S Woodfin
Pvt, Co. F, 18 Reg’t [sic] Tennessee Infantry.
Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above, for Mar and Apr,
1863.
Enlisted:
When Nov 4, 1862.
Where Lavergne
By whom Bultes
Period [blank]
Last paid:
By whom never paid
To what time [blank], 186 [blank]
Present or absent [blank]
Remarks Died at Murfreesboro of fever Dec 2, 1862.
The 18th Regiment Tennessee Infantry was organized for State service June 11, 1861,
and transferred to the service of the Confederate States August 7, 1861. It was
captured at Ft. Donelson, Tenn., February 16, 1862, released at Vicksburg, Miss.,
September 23, 1862; re-organized September 26, 1862, and declared exchanged at
Aiken’s Landing Nov. 10, 1862. It was temporarily consolidated with the 26th Regiment
Tennessee Infantry on October 8, 1863, but each company of the two organizations
was mustered separately and under its original designation during the period covered
by this consolidation.
About April 9, 1865, the 2d, 3d, 10th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 26th, 30th, 32d, 37th, and 45th
Regiments and the 23d Battalion Tennessee Infantry were consolidated and formed the
4th Consolidated Regiment Tennessee Infantry, which was paroled at Greensboro, N.
C. May 1, 1865.
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Company Muster Roll Form for January 1864
(Confederate.)
W 18 Tenn.
T S Woodfin
Pvt, Capt. B. F. Webb’s Company, 18 Reg’t [sic] Tennessee Volunteers. [see footnote
below]
Age 18 years.
Appears on Company Muster Roll of the organization named above.
Roll dated Camp Near Dalton Ga Jan 21,1864.
Joined for duty and enrolled:
When Nov 4, 1862.
When Lavergne
By whom Bultes
Period 3 yrs [sic]
NOTE: An Act of the Legislature of Tennessee requires a Minute Roll of each Company
of Volunteers from the State in the Confederate service, to be returned to the Adjutant
General’s Office, with a view of having the name of each Volunteer recorded in a well
bound Book.
W. C. WHITTHORNE,
Adjutant General State of Tennessee.
Remarks: Died Dec 2/62 at Murfreesboro
[footnote: This company was also known as Company F, 18th Regiment Tennessee
Infantry. The 18th Regiment Tennessee Infantry was organized for State service June
11, 1861, and transferred to the service of the Confederate States August 7, 1861. It
was captured at Ft. Donelson, Tenn., February 16, 1862, released at Vicksburg, Miss.,
September 23, 1862; re-organized September 26, 1862, and declared exchanged at
Aiken’s Landing Nov. 10, 1862. It was temporarily consolidated with the 26th Regiment
Tennessee Infantry on October 8, 1863, but each company of the two organizations
was mustered separately and under its original designation during the period covered
by this consolidation. About April 9, 1865, the 2d, 3d, 10th, 15th, 18th, 20th, 26th, 30th,
32d, 37th, and 45th Regiments and the 23d Battalion Tennessee Infantry were
consolidated and formed the 4th Consolidated Regiment Tennessee Infantry, which was
paroled at Greensboro, N. C. May 1, 1865.]
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