S. G. Thompson

Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Rowan County, he enlisted in Company K, 5th North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He may have died or been killed or mortally wounded on the Maryland Campaign of 1862, and was reported "missing on march to Maryland."

References, Sources, and other notes:
Burial and basic unit information from a list in Confederate Veteran1, which has him as F.G. Thomson. Service data from Moore2.

Burial Place: Elmwood Cemetery, Shepherdstown, WV

Notes

1 United Confederate Veterans, U Daughters of the Confederacy, and Sons of Confederate Veterans, , Confederate Veteran Magazine (1893-1932), 1893-01-01, Vol. XIX, pp. 75 - 76 [AotW citation 5151]

2 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pg. 196 [AotW citation 9784]

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