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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Bedford

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 16 year old spooler (textile mill worker) living with his weaver parents and siblings in Stonington, New London, CT. He enlisted on 11 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded and captured in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 19 September. He was sent from the parole camp to Alexandria, VA in November 1862, but failed to report.

References & notes

Casualty basics from Nelson.1 His service from the Record.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844 in ENGLAND

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. 128 [AotW citation 16357]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 348 [AotW citation 30649]

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