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LTC Thomas Wade Gaines
25 May 1827 – 30 Dec 1894
| Birth | 25 May 1827 |
| Death | 30 Dec 1894 |
| Cemetery | Clarksville Cemetery Clarksville , Red River County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Carol Pagitt Hammack on 03 Jan 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6975693 |
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Same marker with Eliza Ann Gaines.
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L1EUTENANT COLONEL THOS. W. GAINES Was born in Botetourt County, Virginia, on the 25th day of March 1827. In childhood moved with his parents to Roanoke County, where he resided and received a common school education. At 19 he volunteered in Captain James F. Preston's company of grenadiers, in thy 1st Virginia regiment, and served about nineteen months in Mexico, until the close of the war. The regiment returned to Virginia and was mustered out at Old Point Comfort. At 28 years of age he emigrated to Adams County, Ills., married, and at the breaking out of the rebellion, having had some military experience, with the assistance of others, recruited a company in readiness for an expected call for more troops. The call for 800,000 more men found him ready, and the company being recruited to the required number he was elected its Captain and received his commission to date from the 12th day of September 1861. Served with the company until April 6th, '02, when the Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel being wounded, the Major being absent and he being the senior Captain present assumed command of the regiment, and continued so throughout the battle by request of the officers then present. On the morning of the 7th he was placed, with the regiment, in front of the line of artillery, to the left of the Corinth Road, when an unaccountable panic arose in front, resulting in a stampede, which was promptly cheeked by him moving, on his own account, the regiment across the track of the stampede. For this praiseworthy act he was complimented on the spot by General Grant. October 9th, 1802, he was promoted Major, and on the 12th of May 1803, was notified by telegraph that he had been commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, to succeed Col. Swarthout, to date from March 27th. On the 27th of June, owing to ill health, he obtained leave of absence for twenty days. On the 16th of September he returned and on the 30th was assigned to duty as provost marshal for the district of Corinth. On the march to Lynnville, Term.; he was taken sick and went around by boat, joining us at Lynnville. Was ordered to Illinois on recruiting service in December 1838, and upon returning with the regiment from veteran furlough, was appointed provost marshal at Pulaski, Term. On account of continued ill health, and disease settling in his eyes, he was unable to proceed on the campaign, but joined the regiment at -Rome, Ga., and reluctantly tendered his resignation on the 8th of July; notice of its being accepted was received on the 24th, and on the 25th he bade farewell to the regiment and departed, broken in health and with the loss of one eye, a worthy representative of the "Blind Half Hundred." After the war he was elected Treasurer of Adams County serving with credit, and in 1870 emigrated with his wife and four children to Clarksville, Texas, where he served the people as Postmaster during President Harrison's administration, and now resides. From "History of the Fiftieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Union"
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- Gibson Wortham Gaines 1803–1877 FaG
- James Walker Gaines 1822–1895 FaG
- Henry Goodloe Gaines 1823–1884 FaG
- Mary Ann Elizabeth Gaines Goodwin 1833–1925 FaG
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