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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Nicholas Pomeroy

(1835 - 1919)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He came to America about 1858 and by 1861 was a mechanic working in Houston, TX. He enlisted on 19 July 1861 in Houston and mustered as a Private in Company A, 5th Texas Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and carried wounded Lieutenant H.W. Boyd of Company C from the field.

The rest of the War

He was wounded by gunshots to his hand and side at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured there. He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware but almost immediately exchanged - on 31 July 1863 - then in Virginia hospitals to 29 August when he was furloughed for 30 days to Mobile, AL. He was with his company to at least December 1864, the latest entry in his service record file.

After the War

He returned to Millstreet in County Cork in 1866, married there in 1869, and was a "substantial farmer" there at his death in 1919.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His role at Sharpsburg from Schmutz,2 citing Pomeroy's own Reminiscences of the American War 1861-1865 (1908-11). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah Twomey (1840-1925) in Millstreet in November 1869.

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 32619]

2 Schmutz, John F., "The Bloody Fifth" The 5th Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, p. 215 [AotW citation 32620]

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