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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

WIlliam H. Thompson

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 23 year old mechanic in Caswell County, he mustered as Private, Company C, 13th North Carolina Infantry on 24 April 1861 in Caswell County. He was promoted to Corporal on 26 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

Service from the Roster 1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His memorial in Greenview Cemetery, Reidsville, NC is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19172]

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