S.H. Thompson

Federal (USV)

Corporal

Samuel H. Thompson

(1827 - 1864)

Home State: Vermont

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Vermont Infantry

Before Antietam

From Cabot, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 4th Vermont Infantry on 20 Auguat 1861, and was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed by a gunshot to his head at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from Peck.1 Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a copy of a photograph contributed to the FamilySearch database by user randiek.

Birth

1827; Walden, VT

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA

Notes

1 Peck, Theodore S., Adjutant General, and The Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66, Montpelier: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pg. 135 [AotW citation 27244]

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