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Federal (USV)

Private

David Thomas

(1841 - 1909)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

From Pottsville, he enlisted at age 21 on 7 September 1861 in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right foot in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 4 October, sent to GH#1 there on 6 March 1863, and sent on to Baltimore on 15 June. He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps on 1 September 1863.

After the War

He lived for a time in Stockton, CA and died back in Pottsville, an invalid, on 12 August 1909.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 with details from Company C roster information online transcribed online by Stu Richards at Schuylkill County Military History. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/15/1841 in WALES

Death

08/12/1909; Pottsville, PA; burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Pottsville, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15330]

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 #460 [AotW citation 30930]

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