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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Nathan Thompson

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old day laborer at Cassville in Cass County, GA. He enlisted at Camp McDonald at Big Shanty, GA on 11 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 18th Georgia Infantry. He was slightly wounded in the hip at Cold Harbor, VA on 27 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to about 22 October, then transferred for exchange, place not given.

He was captured again, on 1 June 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA, and sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was transferred to Elmira, NY on 12 July and was released on 21 June 1865 after taking an oath of allegiance to the United States.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844 in AL

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 34206]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #442 [AotW citation 34207]

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