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Thomas J. Ward (1863)

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This Romney (Hampshire County) native, while serving as a private with the 116th Illinois Infantry, stormed a Confederate stronghold at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on 22 May 1863.

He was born in 1837. After the war, he moved to Illinois, where he worked as a teamster and then moved again to Montana, where he was a tinsmith. He died in Montana in 1924.

Thomas J. Ward (1863)