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Federal (USV)

Private

Thomas A. Richardson

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

He was an 18 year old farmer from Pittston, ME when he enlisted on 8 August and he mustered as a Private in Company D, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He enlisted again, as a Private in Company I, 2nd Maine Cavalry on 22 December 1863. He transferred to Company M in 1864 and then to the US Navy on 18 July 1864.

After the War

He began receiving an invalid veteran's pension as early as March 1863 and it continued to at least May 1909.

References & notes

His status as missing at Antietam from Hyde,1 as Thomas Richards. His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File;3 at least one record has him killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

Birth

c. 1843; Pittston, ME

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6639]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 27833]

3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29262]

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