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Gilbert Thompson - Wikipedia Gilbert Thompson (21 March 1839 – 8 June 1909) was an American typographer, draftsman, topographer, and soldier [1] Born on March 21, 1839, in Blackstone, Massachusetts, his father had helped combat the Dorr Rebellion in neighboring Rhode Island, and his great-grandmother was Deborah Sampson [2]
In His Words: The Exceptional Life of Union Engineer Gilbert . . . Gilbert Thompson was an exceptional young man Raised in the experimental, reformist community of Hopedale, Mass , he received a thorough education that included at least some artistic instruction It was likely his skill at drawing that prompted him to join a planned company of topographical engineers in November 1861 when he was 21
Gilbert Thompson - The Petersburg Project Gilbert Thompson wrote"The Engineer Battalion in the Civil War: A Contribution to the History of the United States Engineers," edited and re-published after his death in 1910 in the Occasional Papers Engineer School, United States Army, No 44
A Volunteer in the Regulars: The Civil War Journal and Memoir . . . At the outbreak of the Civil War, Massachusetts native Gilbert Thompson joined the regular army, which assigned him to the engineer battalion, a unit that provided critical support for the Union military effort in building bridges and roads and surveying and producing maps
Gilbert Thompson journal, - Library of Congress Gilbert Thompson journal, 1857-1901 Union soldier and topographical engineer Journal of Thompson's Civil War experiences in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D C , while serving as a topographical engineer in the Engineer Battalion, U S Army of the Potomac …
Emerging Civil War Massachusetts native Gilbert Thompson enlisted for three years in the topographical engineers (the “topogs” as Thompson routinely called them) in November 1861