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(c. 1831 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 28th New York Infantry
Before Antietam
Age 30, he enlisted on 7 December 1861 in Medina to serve 18 months and mustered as a Private in Company D, 28th New York Infantry on 10 December.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862 ...
by a spherical projectile which entered near the centre of the forehead, passed downward through the anterior lobe of the right hemisphere [of his brain], penetrating the roof of the orbit [eye socket] and lodging near the apex [of the eyeball].
The rest of the War
He was sent by rail to the US Army hospital at the corner of South and 24th Streets in Philadelphia, PA on 26 September, where his destroyed right eye and the "missile" were removed. He died there of his wound on 4 October 1862.
After the War
He was originally buried in Glenwood Cemetery and removed to the Philadelphia National Cemetery, date not known.
References & notes
His service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Wound and hospital details from Nelson2 and the MSHWR,3 source of the quotes above, which has him as Pvt Thomas J. C---, Company B. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his modern marker (c. 1974) has him as Thomas I. Chapman, Company B, with his death on 16 October 1862.
Birth
c. 1831
Death
10/04/1862; Philadelphia, PA
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 21, pg. 308 [AotW citation 22450]
2 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. 159 [AotW citation 17317]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 199 [AotW citation 31267]