Tom Colleton (1892 - January 31, 1943) was the middle sibling of the Colleton family, between Anne and Jacob. Leaving the administration of the Marshlands Plantation near St. Matthews, South Carolina to his sister, Colleton went to war for the Confederacy in August 1914 as a captain in the Seventh Virginia Infantry (he was Reginald Bartlett's CO), serving in the Roanoke Front until the end of the war in the summer of 1917. During a visit home in 1915, he had heard rumors of a fermenting rebellion by the CSA's black population and cast suspicions on Scipio. Anne dismissed the idea out of hand saying that Scipio had helped raise the Colletons since they were babies. But Tom was proven right after the birth of the Congaree Socialist Republic, which claimed the life of Jacob Colleton.