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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas H. Loper

(c. 1836 - 1914)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Hartford, he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 14 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #3 in the German Reformed Church in in Frederick, MD on 28 September and was sent on to Philadelphia two days later. He transferred to Company B, 20th Regiment, Invalid (Veteran Reserve) Corps on 20 September 1863 and mustered out on 3 July 1865.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a brick maker in Hartford, CT.

References & notes

Service information from Ingersoll1 and the Record.2 Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary A. --- (?) and they had a daughter Fanny (b. 1866).

Birth

c. 1836 in NY

Death

09/05/1914; burial in Veterans Cemetery, Darien, CT

Notes

1 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pp. 647 - 663 [AotW citation 5498]

2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 623 [AotW citation 27019]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #53 [AotW citation 27020]

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