William R. Thompson

Age 17, a student from Yazoo County, MS, he enlisted and mustered as a Private in Company H (later renamed "K"), 12th Mississippi Infantry on 8 May 1861 at Corinth, MS. He was wounded in the foot near Richmond, VA in early July 1862 and returned to duty from a Richmond hospital on 26 July 1862.

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

He was with his Company to at least the end of 1864, then sick in Richmond, VA hospitals to 22 February 1865. He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865, a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD, and released on 30 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance. He was furnished transportation from Washington, DC to Yazoo, MS on 1 July.

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

c. 1844 in MS