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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas D. Williams

(c. 1823 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 38, he enlisted at Minersville on 10 September 1861 and mustered in Pottsville on 23 September as a Private in Company D, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

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. 1823

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry  [AotW citation 15370]

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 30969]