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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Todd

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old farmer in Monroe County, he mustered as Private, Company F, 27th Indiana Infantry on 12 September 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at a hospital in Alexandria, VA, but was discharged for wounds, his left leg being paralyzed, in Washington, DC on 24 November 1862. He died of smallpox in Washington on 3 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from Brown1 and the Historical Data Systems database. His wound and hospital detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

12/03/1862; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 Brown, Edmund Randolph, The Twenty-Seventh Indiana Volunteer Infantry in the War of the Rebellion, Monticello, IN: E.R. Brown, 1899, pg. 601 [AotW citation 18625]

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. 414 [AotW citation 18626]

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