Soldier:  Thomas H. Rigby

Regiment:  3^rd. OVC                  

Company:  M

Age:  18                       

Date Entering Service:  December 29, 1863

Period of Service:  3 years

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Mustered out on August 4, 1865 at Edgefield, Tennessee.

Battles in which he fought:

Decatur, Courtland Rd.,  Ala.                               May 26-27, 1864

Moulton, Ala.                                                     May 28-29, 1864

Noonday Creek, Ga.                                           June 20, 1864

Kenesaw Mt., Ga.                                               June 27, 1864

Vining Station, Ga.                                             July 2, 1864

Peach Tree Creek, Ga.                                        July 20, 1864

Jonesboro, Ga.                                                  Aug. 19-20, 1864

Lovejoy Station, Ga.                                           Aug. 20, 1864

Franklin, Tenn.                                                   Nov. 30, 1864

Selma, Ala.                                                        April 2, 1865

Columbus, Ga.                                                   April 16, 1865

Macon, Ga.                                                        April 20, 1865

Other interesting information discovered:

Thomas Rigby was born in New York in 1846.  In 1850 he was living with his family in Richland County, Ohio, and by 1860 Chester Township, Morrow County, Ohio.  He eventually moved to Missouri.  His wife’s name was Annie;  he was a carpenter by trade.  In 1916 he was living at the National Home for Disabled veterans at Leavenworth, Kansas.

Date of Death:  June 6, 1917                           Place of burial: Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, MO

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher:  Patrick Drouhard