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Federal (USV)

Private

Charles Thompson

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Before Antietam

From Fairfield, CT, he enlisted on 5 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 25 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal on 22 September 1863 and reenlisted on 24 December 1863. He was discharged for disability on 12 March 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report.

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, p. 331 [AotW citation 30679]

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