Thomas William Lord – Captain, United States Army

Thomas William Lord of Massachusetts

Appointed from Maine, Sergeant, Company K, 17th Maine Infantry, 21 July 1862
Second Lieutenant, 23 February 1862
Honorably mustered out 8 September 1863
Second Lieutenant, Volunteer Reserve Corps, 8 December 1863
First Lieutenant, 5 June 1865
Brevetted Captain of Volunteers, 13 March 1865 for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Chancellorsville, Virginia
Honorably mustered out 3 October 1866
Second Lieutenant, 43rd Infantry, 28 July 1866
Regimental Adjutant, 12 January 1867 to 8 April 1869
Unassigned 8 April 1869
Assigned 20th Infantry, 14 July 1869
First Lieutenant, 1 October 1871
Regimental Quartermaster 1 October 1871 to 30 June 1883
Retired with rank of Captain, 28 January 1890 (Act of Congress of 11 August 1888)
Disappeared 20 December 1901 and supposed to have died and dropped from the Army, 1 December 1902


LORD, THOMAS W

  • CAPT USA
  • BURIED AT:  SECTION 1
  • ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

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