Thomas Donor enlisted in the U.S. Army at Mason, Illinois at the age of eighteen. He was light complected, with blue eyes and auburn hair, and was five feet four inches tall. His occupation was farmer. He served as a Private in the U.S. Army during the Civil War with Company B, 38th Illinois Infantry. He was wounded in the battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia on August 6, 1864 and died of his wounds two days later on August 8, 1864. His name appears on the U.S. Army Civil War Roll of Honor. He was originally "buried at Peachtree Creek, Georgia on the Fisher farm three miles North of Atlanta on the Peachtree Road alongside the road on the left hand side going North by the ruins of an old house and 300 yards west of the above graves" as recorded at the time in the U.S. Army records. He was later reinterred at Marietta National Cemetery.
Thomas Donor enlisted in the U.S. Army at Mason, Illinois at the age of eighteen. He was light complected, with blue eyes and auburn hair, and was five feet four inches tall. His occupation was farmer. He served as a Private in the U.S. Army during the Civil War with Company B, 38th Illinois Infantry. He was wounded in the battle of Peachtree Creek, Georgia on August 6, 1864 and died of his wounds two days later on August 8, 1864. His name appears on the U.S. Army Civil War Roll of Honor. He was originally "buried at Peachtree Creek, Georgia on the Fisher farm three miles North of Atlanta on the Peachtree Road alongside the road on the left hand side going North by the ruins of an old house and 300 yards west of the above graves" as recorded at the time in the U.S. Army records. He was later reinterred at Marietta National Cemetery.
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