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Federal (USV)

Private

James A. Thomas

(1833 - 1863)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 27, from Lee, ME, was mustered as Private, Company C, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in Washington, DC on 18 January 1863.

References & notes

Service from the Adjutant General.1 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

06/03/1833; Lee, ME

Death

01/18/1863; Washington, DC; burial in US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National Cemetery, Washington, DC

Notes

1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, pg. 172 [AotW citation 20827]

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