Thomas L. Martin
       Co A, 5th Ark Reg Confederate Army
         Civil War

             Thomas L. Martin. . . . . .  is the son of John and Sallie (Fitzgerald) Martin.  . . . . . . He was born in Lawrence County, Ala.     In 1842 (March 5) and was reared to farm life, coming to this county with his father in 1858.    In 1861, he joined the Confederate army, serving as one of the celebrated "Walking Grays" for a short time and in February 1862, he became connected with the Fifth Arkansas Provisional Regiment, known as the Walker Regiment, in which he served until the surrender of Island No.1 0, in 1862; there he was captured and sent to Camp Douglas, being held until the following September.    He rejoined his command in December, at Port Hudson, was again captured in the following May and sent to New Orleans, and afterward to Fortress Monroe, where he was paroled. Returning home, he walked a distance of 500 miles in fourteen days and a half, reaching his destination in August 1863.    In the following April he started for Kirby Smith's headquarters, but did not again go into active service, being engaged in getting together Government cotton.    After the war Mr. Martin resumed his farming operations. . . . . . . .  He has been twice married; first to Elizabeth Wigby, on February 1, 1866, by whom he had three children: Maggie Emma; Thomas Jefferson and Dittie Ellen.     Mrs. Martin died in 1881 and Mr. Martin subsequently married on December 6, 1882, having four children by his second wife (she was a widow, Mrs. Mollie F. Everet): Wesley Hargus; Elza Dolphus; Edgar Shuford and Porter Featherstone.
              The above information was copied from "The Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas", page 371.
             Thomas L. Martin died 28 June 1922 and was buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery, near Wynne, Arkansas.

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