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Thomas Applegate

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Thomas Applegate

Birth
Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
20 Jan 1910 (aged 81)
Humboldt County, California, USA
Burial
Eureka, Humboldt County, California, USA Add to Map
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Thomas Applegate was living in Coganhouse Township, Lycoming County, when he enlisted in the army on August 1, 1864, as a substitute for Albert W. Curtis. He served at the rank of private with Co. C, 87th Pa Inf, until discharged honorably June 29, 1865. A sawyer by stated profession, he stood 6' 1" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes. The 1880 census for Humboldt County, California, shows he was then a railroad worker. Apparently he never married.

Dennis W. Brandt
author: From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and its Civil War Community
Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War
Shattering the Truth: The Slandering of Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Applegate was living in Coganhouse Township, Lycoming County, when he enlisted in the army on August 1, 1864, as a substitute for Albert W. Curtis. He served at the rank of private with Co. C, 87th Pa Inf, until discharged honorably June 29, 1865. A sawyer by stated profession, he stood 6' 1" tall and had brown hair and blue eyes. The 1880 census for Humboldt County, California, shows he was then a railroad worker. Apparently he never married.

Dennis W. Brandt
author: From Home Guards to Heroes: The 87th Pennsylvania and its Civil War Community
Pathway to Hell: A Tragedy of the American Civil War
Shattering the Truth: The Slandering of Abraham Lincoln

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Native of England Member of Company C 87th Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry GAR

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