Captain Thomas J



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Captain Thomas J. Key

Key’s Arkansas Light Artillery
Thomas was born in 1831 in Bolivar, Tennessee. In 1860 he was the publisher of the newspaper in Helena, Arkansas with a wife and 3 children. He enlisted as a private on May 1, 1862 and immediately transferred to Calvert’s Arkansas Light Artillery. Thomas was elected 2nd Lt. on June 24, 1862.
He was promoted to Captain in November, 1863 and command of the battery.
In a January 31, 1864 diary entry Thomas note, “After horse inspection I called upon General Cleburne and conversed with him at length about a secret trip to Mobile. He says that he conversed with many of the wealthy men of Alabama upon the subject of freeing the slaves and arming them to fight against the North. He reports . . . that is would rebound to the advantage of the South.”
On September 11, 1864 from Lovejoy Station he enters, “. . . General Sherman . . . is compelling every man, woman and child to leave the city of Atlanta . . . Sherman is one of the most heartless men that has ever disgraced a nation.”
Captured at Macon, Georgia on April 20, 1865. Forwarded to Nashville via Atlanta and Chattanooga on May 1, 1865.
May 11, 1865 took the Oath of Allegiance in Nashville, Tennessee and was paroled to return to Phillips County, Arkansas. Parole paperwork indicates he was 5’ 8”, had brown hair, hazel eyes and a fair complexion. Thomas took a combination of trains and riverboats via Paducah, Cairo, Memphis and finally arrived in Helena, Arkansas. He arrived home to rejoin Nannie on May 17, 1865.
He and the family moved to Corinth, Mississippi where he began publishing a farm journal entitled Southern Agriculture. In 1871 he moved his publishing location to Louisville, Kentucky and in 1882 moved to Montgomery, Alabama. In 1897 he made his final move bringing his publishing offices to Nashville, Tennessee.
Thomas died in 1908 at the age of 79. In 1938, Southern Agriculture, which survived him, had over 1,000,000 subscribers and was one of the largest agricultural journals in the United States.

(Key, Thomas J., Two Soldiers, The Diary of Thomas J. Key, CSA, W. A. Cate – editor, Chapel Hill, 1938, p. 1-5 and diary entries by date.)
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