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(c. 1832 - ?)
Home State: New York
Command Billet: Battery Officer
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
Age 29, he enrolled in Brooklyn on 15 August 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery on 9 November. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 10 March (to rank from 11 February) 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his battery on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He resigned on 16 October 1862 but was re-commissioned on 4 August (to date from 13 July) 1863. He may have been wounded in the leg at Gettysburg, but was cashiered on 2 November 1863.
After the War
He was a town Committeeman of Belleville Township, Essex County, NJ in 1884 and still living there in 1890.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General,1 also as Tom Henderson, and Phisterer.2 The Register of the Volunteer Forces 3 also has him as Tome. His service at Antietam from his battalion commander William Hays' Report. Personal details from the History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey (Vol. 2, 1900) and the 1890 US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Birth
c. 1832
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 1898, Ser. No. 15, p. 350 [AotW citation 30315]
2 Phisterer, Frederick, New York in the War of the Rebellion, 6 volumes, Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1909-12, Vol. 2, p. 1573 [AotW citation 30316]
3 US Army, Adjutant General, Official Army Register of the Volunteer Forces, U. S. Army, 8 vols., Washington, DC: Adjutant General's Office, 1867, Part 2, p. 399 [AotW citation 30319]