Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Thomas Asbury Gatch, Class of 1855 (A.B.) and 1858 (A.M.)

Gatch had been a school teacher in Norfolk, VA before he enlisted in the Norfolk (VA) Light Artillery on April 13, 1862 as a private. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant on April 7, 1863 and transferred to the 6th VA Infantry, Co. H. Gatch was promoted to captain on July 30, 1863, and surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.

After the war, Gatch taught school in Maryland, residing in Baltimore in 1870 and Frederick, MD in 1880. He was residing in Baltimore in 1900. He died in 1901 and is buried in Norfolk, Virginia's Cedar Grove Cemetery.

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