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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Boyle

(c. 1821 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Giving his age as 40, he enlisted and mustered in Pottsville on 18 December 1861 as a Private in Company I, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his arm, 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 at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 24 October, transferred to Camp A, and was sent on to Baltimore on 10 March 1863. He was discharged for disability on 10 April 1863.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1821

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31076]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31077]

3 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 #122 [AotW citation 31078]

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