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T. A. LUNSFORD
Confederate Veteran
Holmes County, Mississippi
My brother
and comrade, T. A. Lunsford, was born in Russell County. Ala., May 19, 1839. Our parents removed to Holmes County, Miss., in 1844, and he was educated in the schools of the
county.
Responding to the call of the South in 1861, he
joined Capt. Joseph McBee’s cavalry company, made
up in Lexington, Holmes County, Miss., which was sent into the Western Department under
command of General Forrest. T. A.
Lunsford served in Company A, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, and
continued in the cavalry service throughout the war, bringing out with him
the same horse with which he entered.
His command was in front of Sherman from Vicksburg to Greensboro, N. C. After
following Hood into Tennessee and out, he was with the command, retreating slowly
and fighting hard all the way to Greensboro, N. C., where Johnston’s army surrendered May 1, 1865. He was never wounded. He returned home after the war to begin
life anew.
On February 5, 1867, he was married to Miss Indian Wells, and together
they lived a long and useful life and reared a large family of children. He
was a devoted member of the Methodist church.
He answered the last roll call and “crossed over the
river” on the morning of February 1, 1915.
[Sketch by his brother, W. W. Lunsford]
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