Thomas Henry Burkett

In 1860 he was a 21 year old farming with his brother John at Bradford Springs in the Sumter District, SC. He enlisted there on 8 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

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

He was admitted to a hospital in Culpeper, VA on 24 September and was afterward on furlough to the end of 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot (or canister shot) to his right knee, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, and left behind. He was treated at the US Army's Letterman General Hospital at Gettysburg where his leg was amputated at the thigh by Surgeon Pierce on 4 August. He was transferred to the West Buildings Hospital in Baltimore, MD on 6 October and paroled there for exchange on 12 November. He was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 16 November and was furloughed home for 60 days on 4 December 1863. He applied for an artificial leg in Richmond, VA in May 1864.

By 1870 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer in Sumter County, SC.

His service details from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Marion Thomas Black (1847-1904) in 1869 and they had 8 children.

01/15/1839; Sumter, SC

12/13/1914; burial in Sumter Cemetery, Sumter, SC