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Pettit, Thomas H.

MILITARY SERVICE

Age: 18, credited to North Hero, VT
Unit(s): 9th VT INF
Service: enl 12/31/63, m/i 1/5/64, Pvt, Co. H, 9th VT INF, pow, Newport Barracks, 2/2/64, Andersonville, Millen, d/prison 11/10/64

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VITALS

Birth: abt 1845, North Hero, VT
Death: 08/25/1864

Burial: Andersonville National Cemetery, Andersonville, GA
Marker/Plot: No_Marker
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Kevin Frye, Andersonville Historian
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)

MORE INFORMATION

Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, mother Jane A., 2/5/1866
Portrait?: Unknown
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Remarks: None

Webmaster's Note: If this soldier enlisted before 9/1/62, and was with the regiment on 9/13/62, he would have briefly been taken prisoner along with the entire regiment at Harper's Ferry. Read the unit's Organization and Service for details.


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Andersonville National Cemetery, GA

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Obituary

The following members of Co. H, 9th Reg't, with date of death and disease, were reported by John D. Flanagan, Fairfield:
Thos. H. Pettit, North Hero, Nov. 10, diarrhea, at Camp Lawton, near Millen, Ga.

Source: Vermont Journal, December 17, 1864.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.