Thomas was a young boy when his father James moved the family out to Collinsville, Madison Co., Illinois in 1847.
Just before taking up the call for the Union, he married Clarissa, the daughter of the late Ezekiel Pilcher and Louisa (Ballard). While serving with the 33rd Missouri, Tom was shot in the temple and left for dead at the Battle of Helena on the 4th of July 1863. A passing soldier found a breath in him, and he was taken to a Memphis hospital where he survived the surgery and at the end of the year was able to go home to Clarissa.
Tom lived to raise a large family of eight children, their first two (Emily Ellen & Minnie) dying in their infancy. He lost his beloved Clarissa who had become a homeopathic doctor, in 1890.
The family remained in St. Louis where he worked as a house carpenter and contractor with many of the Pilchers. He was a man of principles and integrity, a member of the G.A.R., a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army.
When he passed away in 1915, his daughter Mabel (and later his great, and great-great-granddaughters) donated many of the letters he had exchanged with his wife during the war. Among other donated articles of importance in his possession, was the journal of the fur trader Augustin Kennerly.
Also donated and archived are the letters of a fellow soldier, John M. Barton, who also served with the 33rd Missouri and died in 1863. Barton had given the letters to Thomas asking they be returned to his family. Despite many attempts, the Barton family had not been located. The letters were kept until 1951 when they were then donated to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis as the Barton Family Correspondence Series. In 2010, J.P. Sullivan, a Barton descendant, published these letters in his book, Bushwhackers, and Broken Hearts.
The correspondence, along with the Augustin Kennerly journal and other memorabilia, are archived at the Missouri Historical Society Archives in the Thomas Anderson Moore Papers, 1819-1916.
Just before taking up the call for the Union, he married Clarissa, the daughter of the late Ezekiel Pilcher and Louisa (Ballard). While serving with the 33rd Missouri, Tom was shot in the temple and left for dead at the Battle of Helena on the 4th of July 1863. A passing soldier found a breath in him, and he was taken to a Memphis hospital where he survived the surgery and at the end of the year was able to go home to Clarissa.
Tom lived to raise a large family of eight children, their first two (Emily Ellen & Minnie) dying in their infancy. He lost his beloved Clarissa who had become a homeopathic doctor, in 1890.
The family remained in St. Louis where he worked as a house carpenter and contractor with many of the Pilchers. He was a man of principles and integrity, a member of the G.A.R., a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army.
When he passed away in 1915, his daughter Mabel (and later his great, and great-great-granddaughters) donated many of the letters he had exchanged with his wife during the war. Among other donated articles of importance in his possession, was the journal of the fur trader Augustin Kennerly.
Also donated and archived are the letters of a fellow soldier, John M. Barton, who also served with the 33rd Missouri and died in 1863. Barton had given the letters to Thomas asking they be returned to his family. Despite many attempts, the Barton family had not been located. The letters were kept until 1951 when they were then donated to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis as the Barton Family Correspondence Series. In 2010, J.P. Sullivan, a Barton descendant, published these letters in his book, Bushwhackers, and Broken Hearts.
The correspondence, along with the Augustin Kennerly journal and other memorabilia, are archived at the Missouri Historical Society Archives in the Thomas Anderson Moore Papers, 1819-1916.
Thomas was a young boy when his father James moved the family out to Collinsville, Madison Co., Illinois in 1847.
Just before taking up the call for the Union, he married Clarissa, the daughter of the late Ezekiel Pilcher and Louisa (Ballard). While serving with the 33rd Missouri, Tom was shot in the temple and left for dead at the Battle of Helena on the 4th of July 1863. A passing soldier found a breath in him, and he was taken to a Memphis hospital where he survived the surgery and at the end of the year was able to go home to Clarissa.
Tom lived to raise a large family of eight children, their first two (Emily Ellen & Minnie) dying in their infancy. He lost his beloved Clarissa who had become a homeopathic doctor, in 1890.
The family remained in St. Louis where he worked as a house carpenter and contractor with many of the Pilchers. He was a man of principles and integrity, a member of the G.A.R., a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army.
When he passed away in 1915, his daughter Mabel (and later his great, and great-great-granddaughters) donated many of the letters he had exchanged with his wife during the war. Among other donated articles of importance in his possession, was the journal of the fur trader Augustin Kennerly.
Also donated and archived are the letters of a fellow soldier, John M. Barton, who also served with the 33rd Missouri and died in 1863. Barton had given the letters to Thomas asking they be returned to his family. Despite many attempts, the Barton family had not been located. The letters were kept until 1951 when they were then donated to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis as the Barton Family Correspondence Series. In 2010, J.P. Sullivan, a Barton descendant, published these letters in his book, Bushwhackers, and Broken Hearts.
The correspondence, along with the Augustin Kennerly journal and other memorabilia, are archived at the Missouri Historical Society Archives in the Thomas Anderson Moore Papers, 1819-1916.
Just before taking up the call for the Union, he married Clarissa, the daughter of the late Ezekiel Pilcher and Louisa (Ballard). While serving with the 33rd Missouri, Tom was shot in the temple and left for dead at the Battle of Helena on the 4th of July 1863. A passing soldier found a breath in him, and he was taken to a Memphis hospital where he survived the surgery and at the end of the year was able to go home to Clarissa.
Tom lived to raise a large family of eight children, their first two (Emily Ellen & Minnie) dying in their infancy. He lost his beloved Clarissa who had become a homeopathic doctor, in 1890.
The family remained in St. Louis where he worked as a house carpenter and contractor with many of the Pilchers. He was a man of principles and integrity, a member of the G.A.R., a fraternal organization composed of veterans of the Union Army.
When he passed away in 1915, his daughter Mabel (and later his great, and great-great-granddaughters) donated many of the letters he had exchanged with his wife during the war. Among other donated articles of importance in his possession, was the journal of the fur trader Augustin Kennerly.
Also donated and archived are the letters of a fellow soldier, John M. Barton, who also served with the 33rd Missouri and died in 1863. Barton had given the letters to Thomas asking they be returned to his family. Despite many attempts, the Barton family had not been located. The letters were kept until 1951 when they were then donated to the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis as the Barton Family Correspondence Series. In 2010, J.P. Sullivan, a Barton descendant, published these letters in his book, Bushwhackers, and Broken Hearts.
The correspondence, along with the Augustin Kennerly journal and other memorabilia, are archived at the Missouri Historical Society Archives in the Thomas Anderson Moore Papers, 1819-1916.
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