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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Thomas Bryant

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 14th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 29 year old farmer in Davidson County, he enlisted 27 April 1861 in Company B, 14th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his right thigh and hip - the top of his femur shattered - in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was then captured there.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a field hospital near the battlefield, then admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD, but died there of wounds on 19 (or 20) October 1862.

After the War

He was originally buried "on west side of and in the [Mt. Olivet] cemetery at Frederick", but was probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett1 with service from Moore.2 Wound and hospital details from Otis,3 as Private Thomas B---.

There is a stone for him at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and he may still be there.

Birth

c. 1832; Davidson County, NC

Death

10/19/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4590]

2 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, pg. 514 [AotW citation 16598]

3 Otis, George Alexander, A Report on Excisions of the Head of the Femur for Gunshot Injury, Washington: US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, 1869, pg. 67 [AotW citation 23350]

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