Hello Jim, Please leave your email address and I'll send it to you. Please give credit for the biogrpahy to SCV Camp 1535. Somewhere on this site or perhaps on the Louisiana board? I did post his old biography. If you find it on history-sites.com you should probably give credit to the site and give credit for the material to SCV Camp 1535.

Items are always changing from time to time depending upon new information found at the National Archives. A new source of information at NARA as an example has been found within the past few weeks and may change WHT's biography in a small way.

His body may or may not be at the Camp Chase Confederate Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio. He does have a tombstone at the CCCC without question. On April 6, 1862 a private firm was hired to bury the dead at the Camp Chase prison. They would continue with their contract through July of 1863. The Confederates buried by the private firm between these dates removed their bodies to a public cemetery
in Columbus and although the cemetery was known as many names, I've referred to it as the City Cemetery. There were over 130 Confederates buried during this time period between April 6, 1862 and July 31, 1863. They would remain there unless loved ones requested their bodies either during or after the war which was not a large number perhaps around a dozen. In May of 1869 a captain, working under orders from the Quarter Masters Department removed 50 bodies from the City Cemetery to the CCCC. His report did not list those he reinterred but he did say he dug 58 graves and only 50 contained bodies.

Confederate civilians who were prisoners at Camp Chase were also buried at the City Cemetery. However only Confederate military would have been moved to the CCCC in 1869. Perhaps around 40 to 50 were Confederates civilians at the City Cemetery. As we know WHT was considered as Confederate military specifically Company K 9th Regiment, Lousiana Infantry.

In my opinion WHT has a special place in American History. Knowing the circumstances of his capture and the reasons for his capture are amazing. I have always tied WHT and others captured at Huntville, Alabama into the Great Locomotive Chase. The Union soldiers with the Great Locomotive Chase would be the first to receive the Congressional Medals of Honor. 7 of Andrews Raiders, sometimes referred to as Mitchell's Raiders would be hanged. 7 of the captured Confederates at Huntsville, Alabama would die while in prison and receive no mention whatsoever. As you know WHT was one of those 7. Thx Dennis