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T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Macon

1839–1917

A Richmond memoirist and former Confederate artilleryman, he left behind a firsthand account of wartime service and everyday life in Virginia. His writing is valued for its personal, memory-driven view of the Civil War era and the city he knew so well.

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Life Gleanings

Life Gleanings

by T. J. (Thomas Joseph) Macon

About the author

Born in 1839 and dying in 1917, T. J. Macon published Life Gleanings in 1913 as an autobiography shaped by memory and personal reflection. Library and archival records identify the book as a firsthand narrative connected to Virginia social life and the Civil War.

Sources describing Life Gleanings and related catalog records note that he worked as a clerk in the Richmond dry-goods firm Park, Nimms, & Co. During the Civil War, he served as a private in the First Company Richmond Howitzers, experiences he also wrote about in Reminiscences of the First Company of Richmond Howitzers (1909).

His surviving work is especially useful to readers interested in Richmond, Virginia, and Confederate personal narratives. Rather than offering a formal history, Life Gleanings presents the kind of recollections that make older memoirs feel close and human.