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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Arthur W. Thomson

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a prosperous lawyer, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 3 younger siblings, 21 year old medical student William Robinson (his father owned the neighboring plantation), and 8 slaves at Blackville in the Barnwell District, SC. He enlisted on 12 April 1862 and mustered on 20 July as 4th Corporal of Company E, First South Carolina Infantry, then on James Island.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot through in left thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was given a furlough home which extended for 30 days on 14 January 1863. He was discharged on 11 July 1863, but he also appears on a casualty list as wounded in action in Virginia in the right lung on 7 October 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, with Sharpsburg detail from the Memoirs.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844 in SC

Notes

1 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 31953]

2 Hagood, James Robert, and Colonel Johnson Hagood, Memoirs of the First South Carolina Regiment of Volunteer Infantry ..., Barnwell: not published, c. 1870, p. 241 [AotW citation 31954]

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