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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas J. Miles

(c. 1836 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 25, he enlisted on 6 September 1861 in Clymer for three years and mustered as Private, Company G, 49th New York Infantry on 7 September.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 as Thomas J. Wiles. His service from the Adjutant General.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1836

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1   Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869  [AotW citation 4357]

2   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1900, Ser. No. 24, pg. 1299  [AotW citation 22521]