Thomas W Dungan (1837 - 1863)

Born 2 Jan 1837 in Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died 2 Jul 1863 at age 26 in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Thomas W Dungan was the son of Sarah Ann Gollehon and James Violet Dungan. He was born Jan 2, 1837 in Smyth, VA.^[1]

He married Nancy Caroline Smith (1838 - 1912), daughter of James and Elizabeth Blessing Smith on Sep 14, 1858.^[1]

1860 Census, Smyth County, Virginia

Thomas W Dungan M 23 Virginia

Nancy C Dungan F 21 Virginia

Sarah E Dungan F 0 Virginia

Racheal J Tilson F 9 Virginia ^[2]

Military

Thomas served in the Civil War as a Confederate: Virginia Regiment: 48th Company D and was killed with a shot to the head at the Battle of Gettysburg. ^[3]

According to Gollehon Family History, Thomas died at the Battle of Gettysburg and was later buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. ^[1][4]It is likely that he was killed in Gettysburg and the body later moved to Richmond.

Battle of Gettysburg

By the time the guns fell silent of the fields of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, more than 40,000 men lay dead, dying or wounded. 28,000 Southerners were casualties in the battle — 39% of its total fighting force that day.

Initially, Confederate bodies were left were they lay in the ad-hoc graves, and only Union soldier exhumed to be reburied in the new National Military Park Cemetery, then called the Soldiers National Cemetery. About a decade later, Confederate families exhumed the remains of the 3,000 Confederate dead, who were reburied in Richmond, Raleigh, Savannah and Charleston.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Sturgill, Kenneth Lee. A History of the Gollehon Family, Marion, VA, 1986.
2. ↑ (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHMQ-2PY : 13 December 2017), Thomas W Dungan, 1860.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #92990695, for Thomas W Dungan (2 Jan 1837–2 Jul 1863), Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA; Maintained by Graves (contributor 47171280).
4. ↑ Sturgill, Kenneth L., A Southern Family in the Civil War. Marion, Virginia: Dean Tucker Printing, 1985.
5. ↑ ]https://www.businessinsider.com/gettysburg-death-toll-so-high-bodies-still-found-1996-2019-6 Gettysburg Death Toll]

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Acknowledgement

• This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010.