Napoleon Magruder Thomas was born in May of 1844 in Albemarle, Virginia, when his father, Garland, was 31 and his mother, Alice, was 23.
Napoleon served in the Confederate Army and fought on June 11 and 12, 1864 in the Battle of Trevilian Station, also know as “Custer’s First Last Stand.”
He married Julia Wallace Poindexter on November 7, 1867, in Louisa, Virginia. They had nine children
Name | N M Thomas |
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Event Type | Military Service |
Event Date | 1864 |
Event Place | Virginia |
Military Unit Note | Third Reserves (Booker’s Regiment, Reserves) AND Third (Archer’s) Battalion, Reserves |
Collection Information
Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865
“Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J3HN-6T7 : 5 December 2014), N M Thomas, 1864; from “Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia,” database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing military unit Third Reserves (Booker’s Regiment, Reserves) AND Third (Archer’s) Battalion, Reserves, NARA microfilm publication M324 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1961), roll 400.