Thomas Allen White

Name: Thomas A White
Age: 30
Birth Year: abt 1830
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Georgia
Home in 1860: Henry, Georgia
Post Office: White House
Dwelling Number: 148
Family Number: 148
Occupation: Farmer
Real Estate Value: 400
Personal Estate Value: 1146
Household Members Age
Thomas Kelly
53
Mary Kelly
53
James Kelly
28
Mary Kelly
20
Millie M Kelly
14
Thomas Kelly
16
James P Robinson
78
Mary Robinson
61
Benjn F Robinson
26
Arch L Robinson
26
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Thomas Allen White II
BIRTH 23 Apr 1830
Henry County, Georgia, USA
DEATH 3 Jul 1863 (aged 33)
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 37463120
Thomas married Mary Ann "Polly" Young in Henry County on March 15, 1853.

Together, Allen and Polly had SIX (6) CHILDREN; Lucy Jane White HUGHS, William R. WHITE, Sara Margaret White LANDRUM, Elizabeth Rebecca White FRENCH, James H. WHITE and John Allen WHITE.

Thomas served in the War Between the States with Company K, 22nd Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, Clayton and Henry Counties, Georgia, known as "Henry Volunteers". He enlisted as a Private on May 7, 1862 and was one of 136 men in his unit under General Wright, Commanding Officer. On July 3, 1863, the 22nd Regiment joined other brigades on Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg, PA. The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest and most decisive battles of the war. For three days, 84,000 Union Troops withstood the fierce attacks of about 75,000 Confederates. At the end of those three days, a weary and depleted Confederate Army withdrew. About a third of the soldiers in both armies were lying on the field either dead or wounded.

Many able men were lost, including Allen. Allen died somewhere in a mile wide field bounded by Seminary Ridge on the west; Cemetery Hill to the north; Cemetery Ridge on the east side and a wheat field to the south. President Lincoln announced on July 4, 1863, during his speech (The Gettysburg Address) that the Battlefield of Gettysburg be made a permanent National Cemetery. Allen was buried in this Cemetery, and supposedly, was later brought home. It is thought that when the war was over, the Confederates exhumed their dead and took them back to their homes in the South. Allen's grave has not been located, so he could still be in Gettysburg in an unmarked grave where he died fighting for the Confederate States of America.
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