Thomas Samuel McWhirter, Civil War Veteran, Sumner Co., TN
Pvt. Thomas Samuel McWhirter 20th Tennessee Infantry, Co. F 2 May 1844---4 May 1926
"...these dead shall not have died in vain."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
Enlisted in 1861 at Camp Trousdale. Private, 20th Tennessee Infantry, Company F. Captured at Fishing Creek, Kentucky on 19 January 1862. He was sent to Camp Chase, Ohio, exchanged. He enlisted in Company A, 9th Tennessee Cavalry. Ferguson's Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War, p. 88.
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