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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Silas J. Thacker

(c. 1830 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: Morris' Louisa (VA) Artillery

Before Sharpsburg

A wheelwright's son, in 1860 he was a 30 year old farm manager at Negro-Foot in Hanover County, VA. He had service in the 74th Virginia Militia, then mustered as a Private in the Morris Louisa Light Artillery on 31 March 1862 at Fredericksburg.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His widow Mary filed for his final pay of $43.80 in April 1864.

References & notes

Basic information from the Virginia Military Dead.1 His service from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Mary Elizabeth Jones (1836-) in October 1853 and they had 3 daughters.

Birth

c. 1830; Spotsylvania, VA

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/>, Source page: /vmd_Search.asp [AotW citation 19032]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31891]

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