Encased tintype of John Houseal Thomson, 1st S. C. Inf. (Hagood's) Regt., CSA. A native of Beaufort, S. C., Thomson died on the field of Manassas on August 30, 1862, leaving a widow, Eugenia Eliza Furse, and two young sons. See tsla124, tsla126,...
Encased tintype of Christianna Margaretta Houseal Thomson, 1811-1875. Thomson was married to David Lyon Thomson of Beaufort, S. C. Together, they had eleven children, three of whom fought in the Civil War. See tsla124, tsla125, and tsla127 for...
This is the last page of "Mothers' Sons," a poem about the sons who don't make it home after the war and the ones who do. Mitchener is aware of his own luck to have survived his air missions, but sympathetic to those mothers who will never see...
