1. Private Company G, 55 Regiment North Carolina Trooops. Josiah Thompson appears on Roll of Honor of the organization named above. Date of entrance in service May 10, 1862; age 27; Volunteer.

2. Josiah Thompson appears on Company Muster-in and Descriptive Roll of the organization above named.
Roll dated Camp Mangum, 30 May, 1862.
Description: Where born? Wayne County, NC
Age: 27 years
Occupation: Farmer
Height: 5' 6"
Enrolled for active service:
When: May 1, 1862
Where: Wayne County
By whom: John D. Pearsal, J.P.

3. Company Muster Roll of the Organization named above for May 31 to June 30, 1862, had no pay. Absent, sick

4. Prisoner of War at Fort McHenry, Maryland.
When confined: July 4, 1863.
How disposed of: Sent to Fort Delaware, July 1863.
Character of Prisoner: Prisoner of War.
Where captured: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
When captured: 1 July, 1863.

5. Prisoner of War at Fort Delaware, Delaware.
When received: 6 July, 1863.

6. Roll of Prisoners of War forwarded from Fort Delaware, Delaware, to Point Lookout, Maryland, October, 1863.

7. Prisoners of War at Point Lookout, Maryland.
Date of arrival: October 22, 1863.
Remarks: Died January 25, 1864.
Burial: Point Lookout Cemetery

8. Register of claims of deceased officers and soldiers from North Carolina which were filed for settlement in the Office of the Confederate States of America for the War Department.
By whom presented: Catherine Thompson, widow
When filed: November 3, 1864.

Brig. General James Barnes and Staff,
Point Lookout Civil War Prison Camp

For information on prisoner's lives at Point Lookout, please click HERE.

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