Pvt. Thomas Jefferson Whitmore, 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company G is listed as "T. J. Whitmore "on his grave stone. Inscribed also " 83rd PA Vol., Infantry Company" T. J. is buried at Shelley Cemetery, Shannon Illinois. His parents were Christopher Rohrer Whitmore and Mary Kieler. T. J.
Thomas Jefferson Whitmore , though only 24 years old at the time of his death, led a life filled with excitement and extreme danger. “TJ” as he was known, survived the Civil War and over three years of hard fighting. He was one of the first to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers; and joined the 83rd PA Infantry in August 1861. As private with the 83rd PA Infantry and later served with the 6th Veterans Reserve Corps marched and fought over most of the eastern theater of war.
His regiment the 83rd Pennsylvania was one of the most famous regiments in the war. The 83rd’s claim to fame can be stated very simply. In the bloodiest conflict in American history it lost more people killed in action and from disease then any other regiment but one. The 5th New Hampshire lost 295 while the 83rd lost 282 in combat.
As a member of the 83rd he saw savage fighting at Malvern Hill and Gains Mill, TJ was badly wounded at the Battle of 2nd Manassas where he received a gun shot wound in the left leg; this wound appears never to have healed correctly. He later rejoined his old regiment and marched to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where he participated in the critical defense of Little Round Top. After the Gettysburg battle he was assigned on account of his inability to walk to the 6th VRC.
The VRC (Veterans Reserve Corps) were normally composed of men who could not participate on active service because of wounds but were still capable of doing light duty. In 1864 the sudden attack of Confederate General Jubal Early on Washington, D.C. required the Union government to order the 6th VRC to defend the capital. TJ saw battle as the 6th and other rapidly thrown together groups won the day at Monocracy, Maryland. In all, TJ was in 15 major battles and many skirmishes. By the time of his discharge on September 10, 1864
At the close of his military service Thomas Jefferson Whitmore was ill and still recovering from a festering wound. He returned to the family home in PA just in time to join his family on their journey to Illinois. He married Martha R. Noland on 12 June 1866 sometime after he was taken ill and died of the effects tuberculosis and his old wound on July 14, 1867. He was buried by his grieving family at Shannon’s Shelley Cemetery.
Lucile Whitmore his niece, stated that the Civil War was still a living memory for many in the Shannon Twp of her youth. Lucile recollected, when she was a girl the town children would go to Shelley Cemetery each Memorial Day from about 1917 to the early 1920s with her grandfather's Alfred Whitacre a Civil War veteran and George Whitmore, the former Mayor of Shannon, (George was T.J.'s brother.). There the children would place flowers on the civil war graves. After more then 70 years Lucile remembered stopping by T. J.'s grave and her grandfather George Whitmore explaining to her about brother who had died far too young.
Thomas Jefferson Whitmore , though only 24 years old at the time of his death, led a life filled with excitement and extreme danger. “TJ” as he was known, survived the Civil War and over three years of hard fighting. He was one of the first to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers; and joined the 83rd PA Infantry in August 1861. As private with the 83rd PA Infantry and later served with the 6th Veterans Reserve Corps marched and fought over most of the eastern theater of war.
His regiment the 83rd Pennsylvania was one of the most famous regiments in the war. The 83rd’s claim to fame can be stated very simply. In the bloodiest conflict in American history it lost more people killed in action and from disease then any other regiment but one. The 5th New Hampshire lost 295 while the 83rd lost 282 in combat.
As a member of the 83rd he saw savage fighting at Malvern Hill and Gains Mill, TJ was badly wounded at the Battle of 2nd Manassas where he received a gun shot wound in the left leg; this wound appears never to have healed correctly. He later rejoined his old regiment and marched to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where he participated in the critical defense of Little Round Top. After the Gettysburg battle he was assigned on account of his inability to walk to the 6th VRC.
The VRC (Veterans Reserve Corps) were normally composed of men who could not participate on active service because of wounds but were still capable of doing light duty. In 1864 the sudden attack of Confederate General Jubal Early on Washington, D.C. required the Union government to order the 6th VRC to defend the capital. TJ saw battle as the 6th and other rapidly thrown together groups won the day at Monocracy, Maryland. In all, TJ was in 15 major battles and many skirmishes. By the time of his discharge on September 10, 1864
At the close of his military service Thomas Jefferson Whitmore was ill and still recovering from a festering wound. He returned to the family home in PA just in time to join his family on their journey to Illinois. He married Martha R. Noland on 12 June 1866 sometime after he was taken ill and died of the effects tuberculosis and his old wound on July 14, 1867. He was buried by his grieving family at Shannon’s Shelley Cemetery.
Lucile Whitmore his niece, stated that the Civil War was still a living memory for many in the Shannon Twp of her youth. Lucile recollected, when she was a girl the town children would go to Shelley Cemetery each Memorial Day from about 1917 to the early 1920s with her grandfather's Alfred Whitacre a Civil War veteran and George Whitmore, the former Mayor of Shannon, (George was T.J.'s brother.). There the children would place flowers on the civil war graves. After more then 70 years Lucile remembered stopping by T. J.'s grave and her grandfather George Whitmore explaining to her about brother who had died far too young.
Pvt. Thomas Jefferson Whitmore, 83rd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, Company G is listed as "T. J. Whitmore "on his grave stone. Inscribed also " 83rd PA Vol., Infantry Company" T. J. is buried at Shelley Cemetery, Shannon Illinois. His parents were Christopher Rohrer Whitmore and Mary Kieler. T. J.
Thomas Jefferson Whitmore , though only 24 years old at the time of his death, led a life filled with excitement and extreme danger. “TJ” as he was known, survived the Civil War and over three years of hard fighting. He was one of the first to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers; and joined the 83rd PA Infantry in August 1861. As private with the 83rd PA Infantry and later served with the 6th Veterans Reserve Corps marched and fought over most of the eastern theater of war.
His regiment the 83rd Pennsylvania was one of the most famous regiments in the war. The 83rd’s claim to fame can be stated very simply. In the bloodiest conflict in American history it lost more people killed in action and from disease then any other regiment but one. The 5th New Hampshire lost 295 while the 83rd lost 282 in combat.
As a member of the 83rd he saw savage fighting at Malvern Hill and Gains Mill, TJ was badly wounded at the Battle of 2nd Manassas where he received a gun shot wound in the left leg; this wound appears never to have healed correctly. He later rejoined his old regiment and marched to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where he participated in the critical defense of Little Round Top. After the Gettysburg battle he was assigned on account of his inability to walk to the 6th VRC.
The VRC (Veterans Reserve Corps) were normally composed of men who could not participate on active service because of wounds but were still capable of doing light duty. In 1864 the sudden attack of Confederate General Jubal Early on Washington, D.C. required the Union government to order the 6th VRC to defend the capital. TJ saw battle as the 6th and other rapidly thrown together groups won the day at Monocracy, Maryland. In all, TJ was in 15 major battles and many skirmishes. By the time of his discharge on September 10, 1864
At the close of his military service Thomas Jefferson Whitmore was ill and still recovering from a festering wound. He returned to the family home in PA just in time to join his family on their journey to Illinois. He married Martha R. Noland on 12 June 1866 sometime after he was taken ill and died of the effects tuberculosis and his old wound on July 14, 1867. He was buried by his grieving family at Shannon’s Shelley Cemetery.
Lucile Whitmore his niece, stated that the Civil War was still a living memory for many in the Shannon Twp of her youth. Lucile recollected, when she was a girl the town children would go to Shelley Cemetery each Memorial Day from about 1917 to the early 1920s with her grandfather's Alfred Whitacre a Civil War veteran and George Whitmore, the former Mayor of Shannon, (George was T.J.'s brother.). There the children would place flowers on the civil war graves. After more then 70 years Lucile remembered stopping by T. J.'s grave and her grandfather George Whitmore explaining to her about brother who had died far too young.
Thomas Jefferson Whitmore , though only 24 years old at the time of his death, led a life filled with excitement and extreme danger. “TJ” as he was known, survived the Civil War and over three years of hard fighting. He was one of the first to answer President Lincoln’s call for volunteers; and joined the 83rd PA Infantry in August 1861. As private with the 83rd PA Infantry and later served with the 6th Veterans Reserve Corps marched and fought over most of the eastern theater of war.
His regiment the 83rd Pennsylvania was one of the most famous regiments in the war. The 83rd’s claim to fame can be stated very simply. In the bloodiest conflict in American history it lost more people killed in action and from disease then any other regiment but one. The 5th New Hampshire lost 295 while the 83rd lost 282 in combat.
As a member of the 83rd he saw savage fighting at Malvern Hill and Gains Mill, TJ was badly wounded at the Battle of 2nd Manassas where he received a gun shot wound in the left leg; this wound appears never to have healed correctly. He later rejoined his old regiment and marched to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where he participated in the critical defense of Little Round Top. After the Gettysburg battle he was assigned on account of his inability to walk to the 6th VRC.
The VRC (Veterans Reserve Corps) were normally composed of men who could not participate on active service because of wounds but were still capable of doing light duty. In 1864 the sudden attack of Confederate General Jubal Early on Washington, D.C. required the Union government to order the 6th VRC to defend the capital. TJ saw battle as the 6th and other rapidly thrown together groups won the day at Monocracy, Maryland. In all, TJ was in 15 major battles and many skirmishes. By the time of his discharge on September 10, 1864
At the close of his military service Thomas Jefferson Whitmore was ill and still recovering from a festering wound. He returned to the family home in PA just in time to join his family on their journey to Illinois. He married Martha R. Noland on 12 June 1866 sometime after he was taken ill and died of the effects tuberculosis and his old wound on July 14, 1867. He was buried by his grieving family at Shannon’s Shelley Cemetery.
Lucile Whitmore his niece, stated that the Civil War was still a living memory for many in the Shannon Twp of her youth. Lucile recollected, when she was a girl the town children would go to Shelley Cemetery each Memorial Day from about 1917 to the early 1920s with her grandfather's Alfred Whitacre a Civil War veteran and George Whitmore, the former Mayor of Shannon, (George was T.J.'s brother.). There the children would place flowers on the civil war graves. After more then 70 years Lucile remembered stopping by T. J.'s grave and her grandfather George Whitmore explaining to her about brother who had died far too young.
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