Thomas Hilton

In 1860 he was a 26 (24) year old miner living with his English-born mother Mary and brother Ashton in Port Carbon, PA. He enlisted there (along with his brother Ashton) and mustered for 3 months' service in Harrisburg as a Sergeant of Company C, 6th Pennsylvania Infantry. He mustered out with them on 27 July. He enlisted again, in Pottsville, on 6 September 1861 as a Private in Company C, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted 8 November [1861?] to Corporal, but was only a Private at muster out.

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

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and sent back to his regiment on 2 January 1863. He was detailed as a Fifer on 17 March 1863 and mustered out with his Company on 21 October 1864.

In 1870 he was a laborer in Mahanoy, Schuylkill County, PA but by 1880 he was a farmer at Longmont, CO. He began receiving a veterans pension for disability in March 1876 and in 1900 he was an invalid living on his farm at West Loveland, CO.

His service basics from Bates,1 as John Frazier, and the Card File,2 also as Thomas W Hilton. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/01/1836; Schuylkill County, PA

12/18/1901; Loveland, CA; burial in Lakeside Cemetery, Loveland, CO