Brig. General Thomas Moore Scott (CSA)

Thomas Moore Scott, a native of Georgia, was farming in Louisiana near Homer in Claiborne Parish at the time of secession. He was, until that time, a civilian, married to Mary Elizabeth Bisell from about 1855 with a son and a daughter.

The Claiborne Rangers were organized with Thomas Moore Scott elected as Captain. They departed from Homer on July 1, 1861 and traveled to Monroe, then to Vicksburg, then to Jackson and finally to Camp Moore to begin training for service.

At Camp Moore, the Claiborne Rangers joined the Confederates on August 13, 1861, becoming a part of the 12th Louisiana Infantry with Thomas Moore Scott being elected its Colonel.

He remained Colonel of the 12th until May 10, 1864 when he was promoted to Brigadier General.

He was wounded in the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. That may have been the end of his military career.

After the war, he returned to farming. He died after a drunken stupor on April 21, 1876 in New Orleans. His wife had died some 10 years before.

He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. His grave site is not maintained today and any sign of a memorial or marker is long gone.

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Thomas Moore Scott (1829 – April 21, 1876) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War. He saw active service in several battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. He was a planter before and after the war.

Early life

Thomas M. Scott was born in Athens, Georgia in 1829 but moved to Louisiana, Tennessee, back to LaGrange, Georgia and finally back to Louisiana where he was a planter.

American Civil War

Scott was appointed colonel of the 12th Louisiana Infantry Regiment on August 13, 1861. He served at the Battle of Belmont, although not actively engaged, and at the battles of Island Number Ten, New Madrid, Fort Pillow, the Siege of Vicksburg, including the Battle of Baker's Creek and the operations of General Joseph E. Johnston in Mississippi in which he tried to relieve the forces besieged at Vicksburg, and during the Atlanta Campaign, initially under the command of Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk.

Scott was promoted to the grade of brigadier general on May 10, 1864 after distinguished service at the beginning of the Atlanta campaign. He was severely wounded in the back from concussion of a shell on November 30, 1864 at the Battle of Franklin and apparently saw no further action. No record of his parole has been found.

Aftermath

Scott returned to farming in Louisiana, operating a sugar plantation on the Gulf Coast for some years.

Thomas Moore Scott was found dead in a chair in the Sample Coffee House in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 21, 1876. He died from alcoholic arrest of brain functions. He is interred in Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans.