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Peter Thompson Weeks (1839 - 1921)

Peter Thompson "Thompson" Weeks
Born in New York, United Statesmap
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Died at age 81 in Los Angeles, California, United Statesmap
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Biography

Peter Thompson Weeks was born on the 28th of September 1839. He was the son of German Weeks and Jane Thompson.
On the 1st of April in 1864 Peter Thompson Weeks enlisted as a Cpl. in Company K 178th Ohio Infantry <Compiled Under the direction of the Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, Volume 9 141st-184th Regiments Infantry (Cincinnati: The Ohio Valley Press, 1889), 576-577, 595./>

"ONE Year's Service. This Regiment was organized at Camp Chase, O., September 26, 1864. to serve one year, and was at once dispatched, by rail and river, to Nashville, with orders to report to Major General George H. Thomas for duty. The Regiment remained in Nashville some two weeks, performing guard duty, when it was sent to Tullahoma, Tenn., where it composed part of the post command. The post at Tullahoma was evacuated in the winter of 1864, and the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth was sent to Murfreesboro, where it remained during the siege. After the defeat of General Hood's army, at Nashville, the One Hundred and Seventy-eighth was ordered to North Carolina. It landed at Morehead City, N. C, with the Twenty-third Army Corps, and a few days thereafter participated in a skirmish with the enemy at Wise's Fork. After the surrender of Johnston's army, the Regiment was ordered to Charlotte, N. C, where it performed garrison duty, until mustered out of service June 29, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department. Page 577 178th REGIMENT OHIO VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. FIELD AND STAFF. Mustered in September 26, 1864, at Camp Chase, O., by Lieutenant Small. Mustered out June 29, 1865, at Charlotte, X. C, by E. A. Folsom, Captain and ?. C. M„ Department of North Carolina. Page 595 Name: Thompson P. Weeks Rank: Corporal Age: 23 Date of entering the service: Sept. 1, 1864 Period of Service: 1 year Remarks: Appointed Sept. 28, 1864; Mustered out with Company June 28, 1865."


He passed away in 1921 and is buried in

Los Angeles National Cemetery, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States [1]

Sources

  • Ashland County, Ohio Records, Vol 81 pp 128-133.




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