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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Fuller

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 69th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 35, he enlisted in New York City to serve three years, and mustered in as Private, Company D, 69th New York Infantry on 2 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded with compound fracture of his left inferior maxillary (lower jaw) bone in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for wounds on 20 December 1862 at the US Army General Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

References & notes

Service information from the Roster,1 which also has him as Thomas Fullam. Wound detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1827

Notes

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 1901, Ser. No. 28, pg. 123  [AotW citation 18108]

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. 216  [AotW citation 18109]