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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas L. Morgan

(c. 1843 - 1915)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Tamaqua, PA on 15 October 1861 and mustered into service on 21 October as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He suffered a gunshot to his hand, probably in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital (GH) at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October and was returned to his unit on 25 November 1862. He was absent when his unit mustered out in 1864.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates.1 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.2 Personal details from his pension record card, online from fold3.

There was also a Thomas Morgan (no middle initial), who was a Corporal in Company H.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

05/11/1915

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 30995]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #205 [AotW citation 30996]

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