Thomas C. Elder

Thomas Claybrook Elder (April 16, 1834 - November 22, 1904) was a Civil War soldier and a Virginia lawyer who served as a president of The Virginia Bar Association.

During the War, Elder served on the staffs of Roger Atkinson Pryor and Edward A. Perry. Elder's wartime correspondence with his wife, Anna Fitzhugh Elder, has been frequently cited as an original source, [See, e.g., Glatthaar, Joseph, "General Lee's Army: From Victory to Collapse" (Simon and Schuster, 2008), ISBN 0684827875; Sheehan-Dean, Aaron, ed., "The View from the Ground Experiences of Civil War Soldiers" (Univ. Ky. Press, 2007), ISBN 0813124131; Greene, A. Wilson, "Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War" (University of Virginia, 2006), ISBN 0813925703; Carmichael, Peter, "The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion" (UNC Press, 2005), ISBN 080782948X; Cashin, Joan, "The War was You and Me: Civilians in the American Civil War" (Princeton Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 0691091749; Rable, George C., "Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!" (UNC Press, 2002), ISBN 0807826731; Simon, John, et al., "The Lincoln Forum: Rediscovering Abraham Lincoln" (Fordham Univ. Press, 2002), ISBN 0823222152; Hess, Earl, "Pickett's Charge--the Last Attack at Gettysburg" (UNC Press, 2001), ISBN 0807826480; Blair, William, "Virginia's Private War: Feeding Body and Soul in the Confederacy, 1861-1865" (Oxford Univ. Press, 1998), ISBN 0195118642; Power, J. Tracy, "Lee's Miserables: Life in the Army of Northern Virginia from the Wilderness" (UNC Press, 1998), ISBN 080785414X; Sutherland, Daniel, "Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville: The Dare Mark Campaign" (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1998), ISBN 0803242530.] and a collection is kept by the Virginia Historical Society.cite web|url=http://www.vahistorical.org/cwg/e.htm|title= Virginia's Civil War, A Guide to Manuscripts at the Virginia Historical Society|publisher=The Virginia Historical Society|accessmonthday=April 27 |accessyear=2008]

After the War, Elder practiced law in Staunton, Virginia. Elder served as a member of the board of visitors of the Virginia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind at Staunton. He later served as president of the Bar Association for the year 1901-1902.cite web|url=http://www.vba.org/history.htm|title= VBA History and Heritage|publisher=The Virginia Bar Association|accessmonthday=April 27 |accessyear=2008]

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