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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Bush

(c. 1830 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Pennsylvania Reserves

Before Antietam

Age 31, he enlisted in Troy on 27 April 1861 and mustered into service as Private, Company C, 12th Pennsylvania Reserves on 10 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot to the right thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital, Sharpsburg, and discharged on a Surgeon's Certificate on 17 February 1863.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson1. Service details from Bates2 and the Card File.3

Birth

c. 1830

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. 150 [AotW citation 17024]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 22902]

3 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 22903]

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