Son of Col. Samuel Danforth and Mary A. (Lamb) Spurr, grandson of General John Spurr, (1759-1816) who participated in the American Revolution, and descendant of Colonel Robert Spurr (1661-1738).
On 14 Nov 1861 Thomas, a lawyer, mustered into service with the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as 1st Lieutenant, being credited to the quota of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was 23 years, 9 months and 12 days old.
On 17 Sep 1862 Thomas Jefferson Spurr was wounded at The Battle of Antietam, Washington County, Maryland, his thigh being shattered by a minnie ball.
He died unmarried on 27 Sep 1862 of wounds received at the Battle of Antietam. He was 24 years, 7 months and 25 days old.
OBIT:
1858; entered the law school at Cambridge, and later studied with Hon. George F. Hoar at Worcester;
in the spring of 1862 he received a commission as first lieutenant in the Fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers and went immediately into the service, where he won the affection and confidence of his men in a remarkable degree.
On the morning of the seventeenth of September, 1862, at Antietam, as he was forming the broken front of his company, he received a wound from which he died at Hagerstown on the twenty-seventh.
"We loved him as a brother," was the testimony of his comrades. "He was loving and tender, and brave and heroic," were the words of Dr. Alonzo Hill in his eulogy delivered before a crowded assemblage which had met at Worcester to do honor to his memory.
On 14 Nov 1861 Thomas, a lawyer, mustered into service with the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as 1st Lieutenant, being credited to the quota of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was 23 years, 9 months and 12 days old.
On 17 Sep 1862 Thomas Jefferson Spurr was wounded at The Battle of Antietam, Washington County, Maryland, his thigh being shattered by a minnie ball.
He died unmarried on 27 Sep 1862 of wounds received at the Battle of Antietam. He was 24 years, 7 months and 25 days old.
OBIT:
1858; entered the law school at Cambridge, and later studied with Hon. George F. Hoar at Worcester;
in the spring of 1862 he received a commission as first lieutenant in the Fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers and went immediately into the service, where he won the affection and confidence of his men in a remarkable degree.
On the morning of the seventeenth of September, 1862, at Antietam, as he was forming the broken front of his company, he received a wound from which he died at Hagerstown on the twenty-seventh.
"We loved him as a brother," was the testimony of his comrades. "He was loving and tender, and brave and heroic," were the words of Dr. Alonzo Hill in his eulogy delivered before a crowded assemblage which had met at Worcester to do honor to his memory.
Son of Col. Samuel Danforth and Mary A. (Lamb) Spurr, grandson of General John Spurr, (1759-1816) who participated in the American Revolution, and descendant of Colonel Robert Spurr (1661-1738).
On 14 Nov 1861 Thomas, a lawyer, mustered into service with the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as 1st Lieutenant, being credited to the quota of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was 23 years, 9 months and 12 days old.
On 17 Sep 1862 Thomas Jefferson Spurr was wounded at The Battle of Antietam, Washington County, Maryland, his thigh being shattered by a minnie ball.
He died unmarried on 27 Sep 1862 of wounds received at the Battle of Antietam. He was 24 years, 7 months and 25 days old.
OBIT:
1858; entered the law school at Cambridge, and later studied with Hon. George F. Hoar at Worcester;
in the spring of 1862 he received a commission as first lieutenant in the Fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers and went immediately into the service, where he won the affection and confidence of his men in a remarkable degree.
On the morning of the seventeenth of September, 1862, at Antietam, as he was forming the broken front of his company, he received a wound from which he died at Hagerstown on the twenty-seventh.
"We loved him as a brother," was the testimony of his comrades. "He was loving and tender, and brave and heroic," were the words of Dr. Alonzo Hill in his eulogy delivered before a crowded assemblage which had met at Worcester to do honor to his memory.
On 14 Nov 1861 Thomas, a lawyer, mustered into service with the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry as 1st Lieutenant, being credited to the quota of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was 23 years, 9 months and 12 days old.
On 17 Sep 1862 Thomas Jefferson Spurr was wounded at The Battle of Antietam, Washington County, Maryland, his thigh being shattered by a minnie ball.
He died unmarried on 27 Sep 1862 of wounds received at the Battle of Antietam. He was 24 years, 7 months and 25 days old.
OBIT:
1858; entered the law school at Cambridge, and later studied with Hon. George F. Hoar at Worcester;
in the spring of 1862 he received a commission as first lieutenant in the Fifteenth regiment Massachusetts volunteers and went immediately into the service, where he won the affection and confidence of his men in a remarkable degree.
On the morning of the seventeenth of September, 1862, at Antietam, as he was forming the broken front of his company, he received a wound from which he died at Hagerstown on the twenty-seventh.
"We loved him as a brother," was the testimony of his comrades. "He was loving and tender, and brave and heroic," were the words of Dr. Alonzo Hill in his eulogy delivered before a crowded assemblage which had met at Worcester to do honor to his memory.
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