Austin woman honors great-uncle who served in Civil War
June 21, 2010 | Posted by javal Captured by the Confederate Army, Thomas Vandegrift was among thousands of Union soldiers in an overcrowded Georgia prison camp.
When he was captured in June 1864, Vandegrift — who had left his family’s home in Red Rock Township, east of Austin, to join the Army — tucked $40 under his shirt and suspenders, avoiding detection by the Confederates confiscating valuables. It enabled him to use it later to buy food, mainly oatmeal, from the prison camp’s guards.
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