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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Elijah Young Thompson

(c. 1841 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an 18 year old farmer at Boon Hill in Johnston County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh on 15 July 1862 as a Private in Company C, First North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862; originally thought to have been wounded, but "not heard from since. Supposed to be dead."

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records, online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. Thanks to Tom Clemens for the pointer to Thompson.

He married Sarah Lucy Ann Oliver (1847-1899) in January 1860 and they had a daughter Nancy Ann (1861-1950).

Birth

c. 1841 in NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 31553]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31554]

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