John H. Thompson

A married 26 year old farmer at Lad Hill, AL, he enlisted in Eastville, Randolph County, AL on 12 July 1861 and mustered in Montgomery, AL on 26 July as a Private in Company E, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded by a gunshot to his left shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Philadelphia, PA on 1 October, transferred to Fort Delaware on 2 December, and sent on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 15 December 1862. He was absent on wounded furlough into May 1863 and was listed as a deserter at Gettysburg, PA on 30 June or 1 July 1863. He was captured in Troop County, GA (given as his residence) in August 1864 and was released from the US prison at Louisville, KY on 16 August 1864 after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States - and pledged to remain north of the Ohio River for the duration of the war.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2

c. 1835 in GA