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Federal (USV)

Private

Jesse E. Thomas

(c. 1843 - 1878)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 11 siblings on their farm at Rockville in Parke County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 7 June 1861 as a Private in Company I, 14th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged to enroll in the regular US Army, and enlisted in Pleasant Valley, MD on 24 October 1862 as a Private in Battery G, 4th United States Artillery. He reenlisted on 5 February 1864 at Bridgeport, AL but deserted his unit on 9 March 1865.

References & notes

His service basics from the Adjutant General1 and the Registers.2 Wound detail from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1843; Parke County, IN

Death

11/24/1878; Mecca, IN; burial in Mecca Cemetery, Mecca, IN

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 275 [AotW citation 33591]

2 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 57, p. 205; Vol. 140, p. 826 [AotW citation 33592]

3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 411 [AotW citation 33593]

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