Thomas W. ANDERSON

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Notes for THOMAS W. ANDERSON:
            Thomas Anderson served in the Civil War, rank, Private, Company
H, 85th Regiment, Arm. Infantry; from the state of Pennyslvania. It states
that he was wounded  (nature of wound not listed) on August 21, 1863. He
joined for duty at Draketown on October 6, 186? for a period of threeyears
at the age of eighteen years. He mustered in at Uniontown, Pennsylvania on
November 12, 186?. His muster-out payroll was at Pittsburg on November 22,
1864.
                EIGHTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA
                                A Brief History
       The Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Regiment was recruited and organized at
Uniontown, Pennsylvania during the period from August through November,
1861. The volunteers which formed this regiment came from the fourcounties
in the extreme southwestern part of the State. These counties, Somerset,
Fayette, Washington and Green, all boardered the Mason Dixon line. The
initial step toward the organization of this regiment was taken by Joshua
B. Howell who also served as the first Colonel of the regiment.
        During the month of September a rendezvous camp was established at
Uniontown and named Camp LaFayette. In a few short weeks this camp became
home to the many men who had volunteered for a three year term of service.
In November the regiment was ordered to Washington, DC where its nine
hundred and thirty-five men were assigned to Brigadeer General Silas
Casey's division. From that point on the regiment was attached to the
following:
              2nd Brigade, Casey's Division, Army Potomas, to March 1862.
              2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac, to
June 1862.
              2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to September, 1862.
              Wessell's Brigade, Division at Suffolk, Va., 7th Corps, Dept.
of Virginia, to                 December, 1862
              1st Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of North Carolina, toJanuary,
1863.
              2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North
Carolina,
                   to February, 1863.
              2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 18th Corps, Dept. of the South, to
April, 1863
              Folly Island, S. C., 10th Corps, to July, 1863.
              1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Morris Island, S. C. 10th Corps,
July 1863.
               2nd Brigade, Morris Island, S. C., 10th Corps, to October,
1863.
              Howell's Brigade, Gordon's Division, Folly Island, S. C., 10th
Corps,
                   to December, 1863.
              District of Hilton Head, S. C., 10th Corps, to April, 1864.
              1st Brigade, 1st Division, 10th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia
and North
                 Carolina, to November, 1864.
         The regiment was formally mustered out of the service on November
22, 1864 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Veterans and recruits who had not
completed their terms of service were transferred to 188th Pennsylvania
Infantry.
          During the war the Eighty-Fifth Regiment lost seven officers and
ninety enlisted men killed and mortally wounded in action and fourofficers
and one hundred and forty-six enlisted men who died by disease for a total
mortality of two hundred and forty-seven.
         Captain Robert Imbrie's company, being 2d Company, First Battalion,
26th Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Major Andrew Jenkins,
served at Erie from February 15 to March 23, 1864. Captain Robert Imbrie,
Lieutenant James Henry, Ensign James Veasey; Sergeants A. McKinnon,William
Moore, John McCormick, Corporals, William Roland, James Ferrel, JohnMcCoy,
William Hammond,    Privates:
Anderson, Thomas          Hickey, John                      McNeal, James
Bottomfelt, Samuel          Harvey, James                  McBride, Samuel
Bolliner, Simon                Hawk, John                        McGowan,
Ebenerzer
Bell, John Jr.                   Hawk, Jonathon                  Melony,
Henry
Bell, John                         Hawk, Benjamin                 Newton,
John
Bower, Samuel                 Hinds, John                       Naymen,
Daniel  .
        Thomas was a carpenter. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage at theage
of eighty-five years, four months and one day, at his home and is buriedat
the Grove Cemetery, Beaver Falls, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.