Hall, Thomas
Rank:	Private
Regiment:	110th New York Infantry Regiment. Co. D (1862-1865)
Service:	1862 August 25-1865 August 28?

Background note:

Thomas Hall, a resident of Oswego, N.Y., served as a private in Co. D of the 110th New York Infantry, the Oswego Regiment. The 110th were never a highly active or decorated unit, seeing little action at any time during the Civil War. Sent to Louisiana in December, 1862, they were one of dozens of regiments that contributed to the Siege of Port Hudson. Although they sustained 37 casualties during the siege, these would account for two-thirds of their total casualties during the war, and Port Hudson represented their first and last major engagement.

The 110th Infantry performed the unglamorous, but hard work of occupation and garrison duty for the remainder of the war. Hall presumably mustered out with the regiment at the expiration of their three years in August, 1865.

Scope and contents:

Thomas Hall's Civil War diary is hampered in its historical value by the brevity of entries and a general failure on the part of the author to write deeply. For the most part, it contains only a rind thin treatment of the war experience. The entries for August through October, 1862 are one-liners of a very mundane nature, some containing only one or two words of commentary.

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Recat. 11/97 rsc

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