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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas Welch

(1833 - c. 1904)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 28, a yeoman from Blackstone, he enlisted in Company K, 15th Massachusetts Infantry on 1 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was reported missing in action again at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. Wounded in May 1864, discharged for disability on 22 October 1864.

References & notes

Basic service information from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts1 with further details from Susan Harnwell.2

Birth

10/1833; County Kilkenny, IRELAND

Death

c. 1904

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 2, pp. 200 - 203 [AotW citation 5973]

2 Harnwell, Susan, The 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry in the Civil War 1861 - 1864, Published 1997, first accessed 01 January 1999, <http://www.nextech.de/ma15mvi/>, Source page: /ma15mvi/Roster/p116.htm#i1685 [AotW citation 27732]

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