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(c. 1844 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an unmarried 17 year old farmer living with his parents, older brother Thomas, and 22 slaves on their plantation at Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company F, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He died of disease at Winchester, VA on 12 October 1862.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
His brother Thomas Benton Thompson (1836-1893) enlisted in Company F in September 1862 and was appointed First Sergeant to date from 17 September 1862, though probably not in Maryland on the Campaign. He served to the end of the war.
Birth
c. 1844 in AL
Death
10/12/1862; Winchester, VA
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 32969]
2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32970]