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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Frederick H. Thomas

(1843 - 1906)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Corporal in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably treated at a field hospital near the battlefield then was admitted to a US Army General Hospital in Frederick, MD on 28 September, and sent on to Philadelphia, PA on the 30th. He was discharged for disability on 18 February 1863.

After the War

He began working in the brickyard in Chaska Township, Carver County, MN in about 1869 and was employed there until May 1883, when he was appointed foreman of the brickyard in Morris in Stevens County. He was living in Chaska at the 1890 County Veteran's Census.

References & notes

Service information from the Record.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from a piece about him in the Chaska, MN Valley Herald of 5 July 1883. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1843

Death

1906; burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Chaska, MN

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 622 [AotW citation 27009]

2 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 #640 [AotW citation 27010]

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