Captain Thomas Preston Wallace, (CSA)

Captain Thomas Preston Wallace, (CSA)

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Company B "Fredericksburg Grays" of Fredericksburg, 30th Virginia Infantry, Corse's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.

Residence Fredericksburg
Enlisted on 7/11/1861, he was mustered into Company B, 30th Virginia Infantry, as a Private.
Appointed 9/5/1861 Regimental QuarterMaster Sergeant.
Appointed 5/2/1862 Captain, acting Regimental QuarterMaster, succeeding his cousin, Captain Casper Wistar Wallace.
On 7/9/1862 was promoted to Regimental QuarterMaster after Col. Harrison wrote Secretary of War on 6/17/1862 urging promotion.
Detached Winter 1863 to Corse's Brigade, ordnance trains.
Promoted to Captain, Division QuarterMaster, reporting to General Pickett; detached to ordnance train of Pickett's Division.
Paroled at Appomattox, Virginia

Postwar lived at 927 Main Street.

The 30th Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in June, 1861. Men of this unit were from Fredericksburg and the counties of Spotsylvania, Caroline, Stafford, and King George.