★★★ Bacon, Thomas Glascock

Thomas Glascock Bacon​

Born: June 24, 1812

Birthplace: Edgefield, South Carolina

Father: Edmund Bacon 1776 – 1826

(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Mother: Eliza Fox 1780 – 1871

(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Wife: Angeline M. J. Gallman 1821 – 1913

(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Children:

William Washington Bacon 1839 – 1849​

(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Education:

Attended Pendleton Classical Institute​

Occupation before War:

Served in the Seminole and Mexican – American Wars​

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Clerk in Edgefield South Carolina​

Civil War Career:

1861 – 1862: Colonel of 7th​ South Carolina Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Accidentally shot himself in the thigh​

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1862: Declined to be Colonel at reelection of regiment​

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1862 – 1863: Colonel of 5th​ South Carolina State Reserves​

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1863 – 1865: South Carolina State Senator​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1876: Businessman and Farmer in Hamburg, South Carolina​

Died: September 25, 1876

Place of Death: Hamburg, South Carolina

Age at time of Death: 64 years old

Burial Place: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina

 

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The name Thomas Glascock is for his Uncle General Thomas F. Glascock of Georgia. He was an officer in the Revolutionary War . His father Major Edmund Bacon wrote under the nom de plume Ned Brace. He wrote the humorous "Georgia Scenes".