Thomas W. Timberlake, 1921

Thomas W. Timberlake
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, 1914
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, 1914, Page 325

Thomas W. Timberlake died on April 1, 1914, at his ancestral home, Sherwood, on the Shenandoah River.

His father was Capt. Richard Timberlake, and his mother was Amelia H. Andrews, of Spottsylvania County, Va.

He was a medical student at the University of Virginia in 1861, and would have graduated in a short time; but when the tocsin of war sounded he left the school and at once volunteered for the war in Capt. William Nelson’s company, G, 2d Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade.

He was a tall, delicately constituted man, yet by force of will was in Jackson’s famous Valley Campaign and on to Seven Pines, below Richmond, thence to Cedar Mountain, where his brigadier general, Walker, was killed; on to Second Manassas, where he was severely wounded in the neck (which bullet was never extracted) while fighting on the railroad cut on August 28, 1862. He was again wounded at Mine Run on November 27, 1863, in the left leg, and this incapacitated him for further infantry duty.

He then joined Company B, 12th Virginia Cavalry, Gen. Turner Ashby’s old brigade, commanded by Rosser, then known as the Laurel Brigade. While defending the middle ford in the Cedar Creek fight on October 19, 1864, he was shot through the right lung. He soon recovered from this and rejoined the company. In the last of February, 1865, he captured Lieut. S. H. Draper, of Sheridan’s staff, a noted Jesse scout of the Union army, clad in gray, defeating his twenty-five men with eleven.

[J. R. Rust, of Haymarket, Va,. sends this tribute to his comrade, to which he adds: "I am proud of his heroic, patriotic life. We were reared on adjoining farms, were friends in boyhood, comrades in many hard-fought battles and starving, strenuous marches in snow, heat, and dust from 1861 to 1865. Never a cloud or blot on his manly character reached my ear. He is survived by a lovely Christian wife, who was Miss Fannie Greggs. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years. As a Christian neighbor and devoted husband he had few peers. Peace to his noble dust!"]

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	Thomas W. Timberlake died on April 1, 1914, at his ancestral home, Sherwood, on the Shenandoah River.
	His father was Capt. Richard Timberlake, and his mother was Amelia H. Andrews, of Spottsylvania County, Va.
	He was a medical student at the University of Virginia in 1861, and would have graduated in a short time; but when the tocsin of war sounded he left the school and at once volunteered for the war in Capt. William Nelson’s company, G, 2d Virginia Infantry, Stonewall Brigade.
	He was a tall, delicately constituted man, yet by force of will was in Jackson’s famous Valley Campaign and on to Seven Pines, below Richmond, thence to Cedar Mountain, where his brigadier general, Walker, was killed; on to Second Manassas, where he was severely wounded in the neck (which bullet was never extracted) while fighting on the railroad cut on August 28, 1862. He was again wounded at Mine Run on November 27, 1863, in the left leg, and this incapacitated him for further infantry duty.
	He then joined Company B, 12th Virginia Cavalry, Gen. Turner Ashby’s old brigade, commanded by Rosser, then known as the Laurel Brigade. While defending the middle ford in the Cedar Creek fight on October 19, 1864, he was shot through the right lung. He soon recovered from this and rejoined the company. In the last of February, 1865, he captured Lieut. S. H. Draper, of Sheridan’s staff, a noted Jesse scout of the Union army, clad in gray, defeating his twenty-five men with eleven.
	[J. R. Rust, of Haymarket, Va,. sends this tribute to his comrade, to which he adds: "I am proud of his heroic, patriotic life. We were reared on adjoining farms, were friends in boyhood, comrades in many hard-fought battles and starving, strenuous marches in snow, heat, and dust from 1861 to 1865. Never a cloud or blot on his manly character reached my ear. He is survived by a lovely Christian wife, who was Miss Fannie Greggs. He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church for years. As a Christian neighbor and devoted husband he had few peers. Peace to his noble dust!"]