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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Reese

(c. 1828 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 33 (or 36) he enlisted in Schuylkill County and mustered in Harrisburg on 20 April 1861 as a Private in Company E of the 5th Pennsylvania Infantry for 3 months' service. He mustered out with them on 24 July. He enlisted again, as a Private in Company D, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 25 September 1861.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1828

Death

09/14/1862

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15369]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30968]

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