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[General Butler]

while wandering through the woods in order to set up a 500 yard shooting range i come upon the grave for Thomas P Coleman, Co c, 7th Va Inf, CSA.
It is in the Mine Run area and there are 6 "stones" nearby.
Help maybe?
Thanks in advance

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

while wandering through the woods in order to set up a 500 yard shooting range i come upon the grave for Thomas P Coleman, Co c, 7th Va Inf, CSA.
It is in the Mine Run area and there are 6 "stones" nearby.
Help maybe?
Thanks in advance

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[John Hartwell]

Fold3 (CMSR) has no soldier named Coleman/Colman in any Virginia Confederate unit. Strange.

EDITED a few hours later:
WOW! That's the first time I utterly flubbed a fold3 search. I don't know what I did wrong ... searched twice (CMSR Index and Service Record) and found absolutely nothing. @lupaglupa promptly turns up the right records (I just now repeated the search & found it, too!)

Must have been the proverbial "senior moment!"

 

[lupaglupa]

Thomas P. Coleman, enlisted March 10, 1862 at Orange County, VA. Present in muster rolls until July/August 1863 when the notes read "absent wounded." Jan/Feb 1864 he was back. Jul/Aug 1864 notes he'd been court martialed and lost 2 months and 15 days pay.

This same man's record then has a card saying he appears on a roll of prisoners captured at Gettysburg July 5th, 1863. Medical record says he had a slight wound to his leg. He was sent to DeCamp Hospital in New York. He was paroled and exchanged August 31, 1863 at Richmond. Then there's a card saying he was captured at Five Forks April 1, 1865 and released June 23, 1865. He had taken the oath at Point Lookout.

That's all I found in Fold3.

 

[scooter748driver]

Pictures?

 

[General Butler]

Thomas P. Coleman, enlisted March 10, 1862 at Orange County, VA. Present in muster rolls until July/August 1863 when the notes read "absent wounded." Jan/Feb 1864 he was back. Jul/Aug 1864 notes he'd been court martialed and lost 2 months and 15 days pay.

This same man's record then has a card saying he appears on a roll of prisoners captured at Gettysburg July 5th, 1863. Medical record says he had a slight wound to his leg. He was sent to DeCamp Hospital in New York. He was paroled and exchanged August 31, 1863 at Richmond. Then there's a card saying he was captured at Five Forks April 1, 1865 and released June 23, 1865. He had taken the oath at Point Lookout.

That's all I found in Fold3.

Wow...i guess when he died he wanted to be with his buddies????

 

[lupaglupa]

Or the stone is wrong in some way. That would hardly be the first time.

 

[ErnieMac]

Application for headstone from Ancestry.

 

[General Butler]

Application for headstone from Ancestry.
View attachment 467537

thanks, you folks are great! The stone is just in the woods, so maybe an old homesite nearby or he just wanted to be with his buddies

 

[ErnieMac]

Thomas P. Coleman obituary from the 12 August 1913 edition of the Fredericksburg (VA) Free-Lance Star:

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

while wandering through the woods in order to set up a 500 yard shooting range i come upon the grave for Thomas P Coleman, Co c, 7th Va Inf, CSA.
It is in the Mine Run area and there are 6 "stones" nearby.
Help maybe?
Thanks in advance

He received a pension from Virginia.

 

[General Butler]

Or the stone is wrong in some way. That would hardly be the first time.

it is in the middle of nowhere but what would have been the back of the Mine Run battle along with a half dozen unmarked stones. Now its pine tree covered but i bet then it was clear cut.

 

[gjpratt]

Remarkable thread.

 

[Johnny_Reb_1865]

Application for headstone from Ancestry.
View attachment 467537

For the pointed top headstones? I'd like to see more of these applications because there's literally tons of these stones in my area.

 

[Johnny_Reb_1865]

thanks, you folks are great! The stone is just in the woods, so maybe an old homesite nearby or he just wanted to be with his buddies

I hope you're not planning on setting up the range there now.

 

[General Butler]

I hope you're not planning on setting up the range there now.

nope...VA law says nothing within 100 feet of a grave. My oldest boy is an archelologist and we will mark it off while we look for the corners of this graveyard.
Then go to the old home site and metal detect

 

[Story]

thanks, you folks are great! The stone is just in the woods, so maybe an old homesite nearby or he just wanted to be with his buddies

I'm not going to leave a trail of breadcrumbs out where any vulture could read it and grave-rob, so check your PMs.

 

[danny]

Fold3 (CMSR) has no soldier named Coleman/Colman in any Virginia Confederate unit. Strange.

EDITED a few hours later:
WOW! That's the first time I utterly flubbed a fold3 search. I don't know what I did wrong ... searched twice (CMSR Index and Service Record) and found absolutely nothing. @lupaglupa promptly turns up the right records (I just now repeated the search & found it, too!)

Must have been the proverbial "senior moment!"

I think its their new and convoluted search procedures.

Plus, of course, the dreaded senior moment that I sadly share with you.

 

[Woods-walker]

it is in the middle of nowhere but what would have been the back of the Mine Run battle along with a half dozen unmarked stones. Now its pine tree covered but i bet then it was clear cut.

There was most likely a house or church site there at the time of his burial. Check out some period LoC maps and the County Clerk's Office for his sister-in-laws house. I'll bet you will find it stood near the grave site

 

[John Hartwell]

I think its their new and convoluted search procedures.

Plus, of course, the dreaded senior moment that I sadly share with you.

I've come to the same conclusion (read: excuse) It's a fold3 conspiracy, and rampant ageism!