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Federal (USV)

Private

Andrew Thompson

(c. 1843 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 100th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted on 27 August 1861 in Washington, PA and mustered as Private, Company A, 100th Pennsylvania Infantry on 31 August at Camp Wilkins near Pittsburgh.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right arm in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 17 September and transferred to Baltimore on 24 September, but died of exhaustion on 1 November 1862 following amputation of his arm at the General Hospital on David's Island, NY.

References & notes

Service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and Frederick hospital details from the Patient List.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of death details, from a register of unknown provenance.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

11/01/1862; David's Island, Long Island Sound, NY; burial in Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 23694]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23695]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #3.858 [AotW citation 23696]

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