S.H. Thompson
(1827 - 1864)
Home State: Vermont
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Vermont Infantry
Before Antietam
From Cabot, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 4th Vermont Infantry on 20 Auguat 1861, and was promoted to Corporal, date not given.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was killed by a gunshot to his head at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.
References & notes
Birth
1827; Walden, VT
Death
05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Fredericksburg National Cemetery, Fredericksburg, VA
1 Peck, Theodore S., Adjutant General, and The Vermont Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, Revised Roster of Vermont Volunteers and Lists of Vermonters who Served in the Army and Navy of the United States During the War of the Rebellion 1861-66, Montpelier: Press of the Watchman Publishing Co., 1892, pg. 135 [AotW citation 27244]