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T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Macon
1839–1917
A Virginia memoirist and Civil War veteran, he wrote with the close-up detail of someone who had lived through the world he described. His books preserve memories of Richmond, army life, and the sweeping changes that shaped the South in the 19th century.
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Life Gleanings
by T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Macon
About the author
Born in 1839, Thomas Joseph Macon was a Virginian whose surviving books draw heavily on personal memory and local history. His work is closely tied to Richmond and Hanover County, and he is best known for writing late in life about the people, places, and events he had witnessed firsthand.
Macon served as a private in the First Company of the Richmond Howitzers during the Civil War. He later turned those experiences into Reminiscences of the First Company of Richmond Howitzers, a firsthand account connected with that Confederate artillery unit, and followed it with Life Gleanings in 1913, an autobiographical work that looks back on childhood, war, and social life in Virginia.
He died in 1917. Though not a widely famous literary figure, Macon remains valuable to readers interested in memoir, regional history, and personal narratives from the Civil War era.