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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

William Thompson

(c. 1828 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 33, he enlisted in New York City and mustered in as a Private in Company F, 42nd New York Infantry on 5 July 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 October and Sergeant on 1 August 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was reduced to Private, date not given, and was listed as a deserter on 9 October 1862.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York,1 which does not mention his wounding at Antietam. His wound from a casualty list in the New York Daily Herald of 25 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1828

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 23, p. 1087  [AotW citation 30170]