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Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Thomas Duff Urmston

(1837 - 1873)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th United States Infantry, First Battalion

Before Antietam

He was a 24 year old architect in New Haven, CT when he enlisted as a Private in Company F, 12th United States Infantry on 13 November 1861 at Fort Hamilton, NY, and was promoted to Corporal then Sergeant by 1 July 1862. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant to date from 25 May 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 6 February 1863. He was killed at Peebles Farm (aka Chapel House) near Petersburg, VA on 1 October 1864 and was honored by brevet to Captain, USA for his actions there.

A fort on the Union line at Petersburg (1864-65) was named for him.

References & notes

His military service from Heitman 1 and they Registers.2 His presence at Antietam from Henry3 and his obituary in the Hillsborough, OH Highland Weekly News of 13 October 1864. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to Tom Nardo for the pointer to him.

Birth

08/16/1837; New Haven, CT

Death

02/17/1873; Peebles Farm, VA; burial in Wooster Street Cemetery, Danbury, CT

Notes

1 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 979 [AotW citation 28568]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, pg. 846 [AotW citation 28569]

3 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pg. 480 [AotW citation 28570]

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