Jesse Thompson

Age 20, from Kosciusko, Attala County, MS, he enlisted on 11 March 1861 at Hazlehurst, MS and mustered as First Sergeant of Company D, 12th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, MS on 12 May 1861. He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant on 3 September 1862.

He was wounded in the neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his right leg on 22 June 1864, place not given, and was away from his Company on furlough to 26 November and then listed as absent without leave to at least 14 February 1865. He was captured at Fort Gregg near Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865, briefly at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Johnson's Island, OH on 9 April. He was released after taking an oath of allegiance on 19 June 1865.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

c. 1841