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Confederate (CSV)

Private

David Thompson

(1842 - 1918)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 18 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the shoulder or neck in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was again wounded, on 14 October 1863 at Bristoe Station, VA. He was promoted to Corporal on 15 November 1864, and paroled on 16 May 1865 in Greensboro, NC.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farm worker on his recently widowed mother Eliza's place at Cedar Grove in Orange County, but by 1880 and to at least 1910 had his own farm in the county.

References & notes

Basic casualty information from Wilson.1 His service from the Roster2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret A. E. Riley (1847-1910) in January 1869 and they had 8 children.

Birth

03/12/1842; Orange County, NC

Death

07/11/1918; burial in Fairfield Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Cheeks Township, Orange County, NC

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9980]

2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966-, Vol. VIII [AotW citation 10052]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31495]

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