Monday, February 16, 2015

Thomas Lawrence Motley

Thomas Lawrence Motley, son of Thomas and Maria B. (Davis) Motley, was born in Boston, Mass., 23 Sept., 1835. Was two years on a voyage to China. At the breaking out of the war, went to Fort Independence, as a member of the New-England Guards. First lieutenant in the Second, 28 May, 1861. Dec 25, 1861, he was commissioned captain in the First Massachusetts Cavalry; was promoted to be major, 5 March, 1862. He was severely wounded in right leg and the right arm, at Ashland, Va., 11 May, 1864, in Sheridan's movement; he has never entirely recovered the use of his arm. Was appointed assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of major; and mustered out, 1 Sept., 1866.

SOURCE: Alonzo Hall Quint, Record of Second Massachusetts Infantry: 1861-1865, p. 491

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