Friday, August 3, 2012

Thomas Crawford Campbell, student 1856-1857

Campbell was working as an apothecary in Petersburg, VA in 1860. He enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 12th VA Infantry on March 22, 1862. He was detailed to the Medical Purveyor's Office in Wilmington, NC and spent the next 2 years acquiring medical supplies. In 1864 he was appointed hospital steward and served as apothecary after his regiment recalled him and he was given a certificate of disability due to rheumatism.

He was a grocery clerk in Petersburg, VA in 1870, and was working as a clerk at the time of his death. He died on October 31, 1895 and is buried in Petersburg, VA in Blandford Cemetery.

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