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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas M. Sweeney

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Delaware

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st Delaware Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted at age 21 as a Private in Company G, First Delaware Infantry on 8 September 1861 at Wilmington, DE.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick on 23 September but died there on 30 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of Delaware.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/30/1862; Frederick, MD

Notes

1 State of Delaware, Adjutant General's Office, Civil War Military records for Delaware Units, Published 1861-, first accessed 31 January 2015, <http://archives.delaware.gov/CivilWar/volumes/>, Source page: Muster Out Roll, First Delaware Infantry [AotW citation 13746]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.357 [AotW citation 25995]

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