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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Tracy

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He had probably served as a Private in Company I, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry (3 months' service) April-July 1861. He was a 22 year old laborer from Pottsville when he enlisted and mustered there on 23 September 1861 as a Private in Company F, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal three days later.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left hand in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was later treated in the hospital at Camp Curtin near Harrisburg, PA, but was listed as a deserter on 14 October 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1839

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15373]

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 30972]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 415 [AotW citation 30973]

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