Thomas Holloway, (born in Scrivens County, Georgia in 1827) joined CS army in Albany, Ga in 1863. He enlisted in McCartha's Company, Mercer artillery, 22 Battalion, Ga. Seige Art.

  He was stationed at Thunderbolt Station on the Savannah River just south of Savannah (presently in the Savannah city limits).

     During the latter part of the war, apparently there was no need for seige artillery at this station, so his company was transferred to the infantry.

    They were part of the Confederate army that took part in the Battle of Olustee in Florida between Jacksonville and Lake City.. His company was assigned to man the breastworks across the railroad tracks between Ocean Pond on the north and a swamp on the south.. The battle developed two miles east of their position and when it was obvous that the main battle would be there, his company was sent forward. They arrived on the field about the middle of the battle and participated in the rout of the Union forces.

After Olustee they were sent back to Savannah and served under Gen. Joe Johnston for the rest of the conflict.

He surrended with Gen. Johnston's army in Bentonville,South Carolina in April 1865. Came home and went to Albany and was paroled,

On 18 April, 1895 he applied for a Gergia disability pension (he had gone blind in 1889 and was unable to work) under the Act of 1894 for his service in the Confederate army.

The pension was approved in 1896 and he apparently drew the pension until his death on 19 Feb. 1901.

His wife, Martha M.Rogers, was born in Gadsden County, Fla on March 20, 1826 and mover with her family to Early County, Ga. in 1835.

Martha applied for a Confederate soldier's widow's pension on17 March 1901, two months after Thomas' death.