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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Davis

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 30th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 30th Ohio Infantry on 21 August 1861 and mustered into Federal service with them at Champ Chase, Columbus, OH on 29 August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Locust Spring field hospital near Keedysville, MD but died there of wounds on 5 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/05/1862; Keedysville, MD

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 3, pg. 418 [AotW citation 22229]

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. 184 [AotW citation 22230]

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