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Federal (USV)

Private

Lewis Thomas

(1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 60th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 10 September 1861 at Ogdensburg to serve three years, and mustered in as Corporal, Company C, 60th New York Infantry on 30 October. He was reduced to Private, date not known.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the right side of his chest by the same shot that killed Sergeant Hoxie in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of his wound on 20 September 1862, probably at a field hospital near the battlefield.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Wound details from Eddy.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/02/1840

Death

09/20/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Morristown, NY

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 26, pg. 810 [AotW citation 22444]

2 Eddy, Richard, History of the Sixtieth Regiment New York State Volunteers, Philadelphia: Richard Eddy, 1864, pg. 175 [AotW citation 22445]

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