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The report of his death on South Mountain in September 1862 was premature. 19 year old Sergeant Thomas W Hall of the 6th Alabama Infantry was wounded and captured near Turner’s Gap, but was paroled and exchanged in November to return home.

Based on his apparent age in it, this photograph may be of Hall and his second wife Martha Rebecca Underwood taken on the occasion of their marriage in 1885. He married his first wife, Martha’s cousin Sarah Underwood when he was home in 1863. He married a third time, to Martha’s sister Eula, in 1902. The photograph was contributed to his memorial on Findagrave by Rick Thiot.