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Federal (USV)

Private

Addison Ferry Thompson

(1835 - 1924)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Lebanon, CT. He enlisted on 10 September 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 21 September.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 and was wounded again, at Cold Harbor, VA on 5 June 1864. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 September 1864 and mustered out on 12 December 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1910, then age 74, he was a farmer in Columbia, Tolland County, CT.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Wound detail from Major Ward's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1880-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Electa S Champlin (c. 1839-1911) in 1866 and they had a daughter Sophia.

Birth

06/1835 in CT

Death

10/15/1924; burial in Center Cemetery, Lebanon, CT

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. 339  [AotW citation 30728]