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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Joseph Adam Thompson

(1830 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 32 year old miller at Coleman's Crossroads, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 9 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry on 13 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds at Staunton, VA on 14 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from Swain,1 as Joseph Ansel Thompson, and the Roll,2 as Joseph Thompson. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. He also has a memorial on Findagrave, which has his gravesite as Staunton National Cemetery, and his name as Joseph Ansel Thompson; It is unlikely he's buried there and his father-in-law's name was Ansel.

He married Laura Elizabeth Devore (later Moyer, 1830-1912) in February 1849 and they had 2 children.

Birth

03/09/1830 in SC

Death

10/14/1862; Staunton, VA; burial in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton, VA

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 653  [AotW citation 24673]

2   Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company E, 7th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols.  [AotW citation 24674]