Thomas Jefferson Spurr

In 1860 he was 22 years old and lived and studied the law with his brother-in-law George F Hoar in Worcester, MA. He was travelling in Russia at the start of the war, but returned home. He enrolled on 17 November 1861, was commissioned First Lieutenant of Company E and temporarily assigned to Company G, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 27 November, and mustered in Boston on 24 December. He was permanently attached to Company G on 29 April 1862.

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his left thigh in action in or near the West Woods at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was found on the field on the 18th by a South Carolina officer, a former Harvard classmate, and taken to a Confederate field hospital. Federal troops regained the field on the 19th and he was taken to Hagerstown on 20 September. He died there of wounds on 27 September 1862.

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines,1 which says he died in Worcester, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and a bio sketch in Harvard Memorial Biographies (Vol. 1, 1866). His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from a photograph contributed by Scott D Hann from his collection.

02/02/1838; Worcester, MA

09/27/1862; Hagerstown, MD; burial in Worcester Rural Cemetery, Worcester, MA