Tom Colleton

Tom Colleton (d.1943) was the middle sibling of the Colleton family, between Anne and Jacob. Leaving the administration of the Marshlands Plantation to his sister, Colleton went to war in August 1914 as a major in the Seventh Virginia Infantry (he was Reggie Bartlett's CO), serving in the Roanoke front until the end of the war in the summer of 1917.

During the interwar period, Colleton married a middle-income woman (despite his aristocratic heritage; the war had margininalized class lines) named Bertha and had two kids. Unlike Anne (Jacob had been killed in the Red Rebellion of 1915), Tom saw nothing of value in the Freedom Party and stayed out of politics. When President Jake Featherston led the CSA into war again in June 1941, Colleton was back at the front, serving as a lieutenant colonel in Ohio.