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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Thompson

(c. 1841 - 1879)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Enfield, CT. He enlisted on 7 September 1861 and mustered in Hartford as a Private in Company B, 8th Connecticut Infantry on 27 September.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshots to his left thigh and left arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He reenlisted on 24 December 1863 in Portsmouth, VA and mustered out at City Point, VA on 12 December 1865.

After the War

He was a laborer at Mount Carmel, PA and was first admitted to the Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (at Dayton, OH?) on 1 (or 5) August 1871, and discharged on 17 August 1872. He was readmitted on 9 July 1875, transferred to the Southern Branch Home at Hampton, VA on 9 August 1877, to the Home at Togus, ME on 25 October 1878, and back to Hampton on 24 (or 30 April) 1879. He was sent to the Home at Dayton, OH on 1 August 1879 and died there of lung disease on 11 September.

References & notes

His service from the Record.1 Personal details from the Registers of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, 1866-1938, online from FamilySearch. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1841 in IRELAND

Death

09/11/1879; Dayton, OH; burial in Dayton National Cemetery, Dayton, OH

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. 336 [AotW citation 30832]

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