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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas F. Dolan

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

A 34 year old polisher in Roxbury, he enlisted there on 22 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 29th Massachusetts Infantry in Boston on 25 March.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his sternum (chest) in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to St Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington, DC on 23 September and was furloughed home for 15 days on 10 October. He was ordered to report to the recruiting depot in Cambridge on 24 October, but did not appear, and was listed as a deserter on 16 November 1862.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

Birth

c. 1828; Ballinamore, County Leitrim, IRELAND

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. 328 [AotW citation 29982]

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 29983]

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