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T.H. Stockton

T.H. Stockton

Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas H. Stockton

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry (detachment)

Before Antietam

Age 19, he mustered as Private, Company H, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 22 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, 5 days after his 20th birthday.

More on the Web

Service information from Bates.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph at the Library of Congress (donated 2018 by Tom Liljenquist).

Birth

09/12/1842

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 18841]