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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Arnold

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 34 year old puddler (iron worker) in East Bridgewater, MA, he enlisted there on 18 May 1861 and mustered in as a Private in Company C, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 22 May. He was wounded at Savage's Station, VA on 29 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left foot or toe in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #8 (Camp A) in Frederick, MD on 12 October 1862 and was discharged there for disability due to a prolapsed anus on 11 March 1863.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Nelson.1. His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4

Birth

c. 1827; Glamorganshire, WALES

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 117 [AotW citation 16172]

2 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 289 [AotW citation 29917]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29918]

4 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 #444 [AotW citation 29919]

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