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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Mason

(c. 1821 - 1862)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 40 year old day laborer in Litchfield, CT. He enlisted on 6 September 1861 and mustered a Private in Company E, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

He was killed by a shot in the head in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Banks1 and Major Ward's after-action report. His service from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary A Williams (1825-1893) in 1847 and they had a son George Williams Mason (1852-1927).

Birth

c. 1821; Naugatuck, CT

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in East Cemetery, Litchfield, CT

Notes

1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12536]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 343 [AotW citation 30753]

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