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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Thomas J. Wilson

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Virginia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Virginia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 21 year old teacher in Rockbridge County, he mustered as 4th Corporal, Company H, 4th Virginia Infantry on 20 April 1861. He was promoted to First Sergeant on 20 April 1862. He was wounded in action at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July and at Groveton, VA on 28 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was originally buried on the field at Sharpsburg "in H. Reel's field west of his orchard along a stone wall". Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 Service and other details from the Virginia Military Dead 2 and James I. Robertson's 4th Virginia Infantry (roster, 1985) via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave, and there is also a memorial for him in the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Glasgow, VA (as Private Thomas J Wilson).

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5031]

2 Library of Virginia, Virginia Military Dead Database, Published 2002, first accessed 30 November 2012, <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/vmd/>, Source page: /vmd_Search.asp [AotW citation 18960]

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