Troy, how neat to have a photo and pocket Bible of your guy! The T. M. Leech, or Leach, of the 1st Regiment Texas Cavalry is the same Thomas M., a blacksmith from Rusk Co. (shown on Footnote under 1st Texas Cav. as "L. M. Leach") as named previously. He apparently re-enlisted in 1862 at Corinth in Locke's 10th Cavalry, then was sent home, as indicated. As stated, like your soldier, Thornton Leach is directly named on the Wood Co. indigent list, therefore was a soldier, and home by January of 1863 to attest regarding Wm. Starr's wife. Whether T. V. Leach was on furlough then or home injured or disabled, is unknown. If I get a picture from the family member of him in uniform, that seals the deal for me. Also, based on his 1870 Hays Co., Texas census record he was a man of family duty and responsibility. His parents are deceased by then (He was their eldest), he had lost his wife to cancer per the 1869 Fed. Mortality Schedule and left him with young ones. Three unmarried siblings are with him, a married sister and her husband (Ethridge) and child are there, plus a widow of a deceased brother with their child and one from her previous marriage, that I've researched out to believe he (Hampton) died in Tennessee of smallpox early in the war!