**Most likely a cenotaph.**
PVT - Served in the Union Army, 25th Massachusetts Infantry, Company "D". Enlisted; Sept. 27, 1861. Died in field hospital of wounds. Wounded near Petersburg, VA.
Parents: Amos and Catherine Thayer.
Died at Petersburg, Virginia.
"Case 1046. — Private B. D. Thayer, Co. D, 25th Massachusetts, aged 21 years, was wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864, and was takes to a field hospital of the Eighteenth Corps, where it was reported that Surgeon H. N. Small, 10th New Hampshire, removed a 12-pound round shell from the left gluteal region, the patient surviving the operation some forty-eight hours. The missile, which was retained by the operator, was entirely concealed behind the gluteal muscles." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.
**Most likely a cenotaph.**
PVT - Served in the Union Army, 25th Massachusetts Infantry, Company "D". Enlisted; Sept. 27, 1861. Died in field hospital of wounds. Wounded near Petersburg, VA.
Parents: Amos and Catherine Thayer.
Died at Petersburg, Virginia.
"Case 1046. — Private B. D. Thayer, Co. D, 25th Massachusetts, aged 21 years, was wounded at Petersburg, June 30, 1864, and was takes to a field hospital of the Eighteenth Corps, where it was reported that Surgeon H. N. Small, 10th New Hampshire, removed a 12-pound round shell from the left gluteal region, the patient surviving the operation some forty-eight hours. The missile, which was retained by the operator, was entirely concealed behind the gluteal muscles." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.
Bio by: Marc Thayer, III
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