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Federal (USV)

Private

Benjamin Edward Thompson, Jr.

(1838 - 1909)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 20 year old cordwainer (shoemaker) living with the Dow family in Lynn, MA. He enlisted there on 19 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 14 May.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 6 January 1863 at Falmouth near Fredericksburg, VA. He enlisted again, on 17 August 1864 as a Private in Company L, 4th Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. He mustered out as a Corporal on 17 June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a shoemaker in Lynn.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound detail also in Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Louisa F Glass (1847-1917) in December 1865 and they had a son Benjamin E, III (1877-); Louisa's brother Thomas was also in Company I and wounded at Antietam.

Birth

11/28/1838; Salem, MA

Death

12/03/1909; Lynn, MA; burial in Waterside Cemetery, Marblehead, MA

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, p. 326; Vol. 6, p. 61 [AotW citation 29978]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29979]

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