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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Harrison Law

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: New Hampshire

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th New Hampshire Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old apprentice mirror (looking glass) maker in Milford, NH. He enlisted on 13 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 5th New Hampshire Infantry on 12 October.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his forehead in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a Second Corps field hospital near Sharpsburg then sent on to the Ladies Home Hospital in New York City on 5 October 1862. He died of there of his wound on 11 (or 13) October 1862.

References & notes

Basic service information from Child1 and Ayling.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,3 as a Sergeant. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

01/31/1843; Brookline, NH

Death

10/11/1862; New York City, NY; burial in West Street Cemetery, Milford, NH

Notes

1 Child, M.D., William, A History of the Fifth Regiment New Hampshire Volunteers, Bristol (NH): R.W. Musgrove, Printer, 1893, Roster pp. 109 - 130 [AotW citation 13424]

2 State of New Hampshire, Adjutant-General's Office, and Augustus D. Ayling, AG, Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866 , 2 Volumes, Concord: Ira C. Evans, Public Printer, 1895, Vol. 1, p. 248 [AotW citation 31170]

3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 76 [AotW citation 31169]

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