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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Dawson

(1840 - 1895)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From Lenoir County, age 21, he enlisted on 6 May 1862 in Company C, 27th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He returned to his Company, but was listed as a deserter about two years later on 8 December 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from Wilson1. His service details from North Carolina Troops 2 (as published in the Historical Data Systems database). His gravesite and accompanying life dates posted online by Glenn Fields. His first child Andrew Lindsey Dawson was born 4 Oct 1864.

Birth

06/10/1840

Death

12/20/1895; burial in Thomas Dawson Cemetery, Lenoir County, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9863]

2 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 17789]

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