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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Betson

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 32nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted on 12 September 1861 at New York City to serve two years and mustered as Private, Company E, 32nd New York Infantry the same day.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Burkittsville, MD on 26 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1

Birth

c. 1840

Death

10/26/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1899, Ser. No. 21, pg. 885  [AotW citation 22545]