Thomas Medcalf in the Civil War

 

Ancestry. US Civil War Pension Index.

During the Civil War, Thomas P. Medcalf served in the 12th Indiana Infantry and 59th Indiana Infantry. He was drafted into the Army in December 1864. He spent March and April 1865 in various military hospitals in North Carolina and New Jersey, before being discharged on 25 August 1865.

From the Civil War widow's pension file.

Photos by Patrick Jones. National Archives, 27 Dec 2012.

Thomas' third wife, Elizabeth, submitted a widow's pension application. The file includes verification of the death date for Thomas' second wife Julia Ann, and of the marriage date for Thomas and Elizabeth in Warrick County. The file also includes an affidavit signed by Louis Lockhart, husband of Elizabeth's daughter Margaret Roberts, verifying the death date for Moses Roberts as 12 December 1859.

The verification of Julia Ann's death date was provided by William Medcalf, keeper of the Medcalf family bible. He was a younger brother of Thomas Medcalf and served as a minister, and later as a doctor.