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Note: HI35388
Note: (Research):Military Service
Service Record: Enlisted as a 3rd Corporal on 04 October 1861 in Company K, 29th Regiment, Georgia Infantry. Paroled on 10 May 1865 at Thomasville, GA. 3rd Corporal probably means that he was the Corporal for 3rd Platoon.
29th Regiment, Georgia Infantry
This regiment was originally called the 37th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was organized in September 1861. It is not know when the designation was changed to the 29th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry. Companies E, F, and G were originally supposed to have been companies G, A, and E respectively of the 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, but were transferred to this regiment by S.O. #288, Headquarters, District of Savannah (15 October 1861).
29th Infantry Regiment, organized at Big Shanty, Georgia, during the summer of 1861, contained men from Thomas, Berrien, Tift, Stephens, and Dougherty counties. For a time Companies A and G served as heavy artillerists in the Savannah area and the rest of the command was at Charleston. It then was assigned to General Wilson's, C.H. Stevens', and H.R. Jackson's Brigade, and in September, 1863, was consolidated with the 30th Regiment. The unit participated in the difficult campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Atlanta, endured Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and fought at Bentonville. In December, 1863, the 29th/30th totalled 341 men and 195 arms, but few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels W.D. Mitchell, R. Spaulding, and William J. Young; Lieutenant Colonels T.W. Alexander and W.W. Billopp; and Majors Levi J. Knight, John C. Lamb, and John J. Owen.
[Communicated] Seventeenth District, Thomas Co., Ga., August 5, 1861 Mr. Editor: Presuming that it would be of interest to your readers to hear from this part of the world, I address you this communication, which you can make public if you see proper.
On Saturday, 27th ult., a goodly number of the citizens of the district met at the house of Bartly Wynn for the purpose of organizing a Volunteer Company, which company was to be tendered to Gov. Brown for service. A portion of the old men of the district being present pledged themselves publicly that the families of those who left with the company would not suffer during their absence. When the call for volunteers was made forty-three stepped forward and enrolled.
We then appointed a meeting for the next Monday at the same place. Our list was run up to fifty-four on that day. The election of officers was gone into on this day and resulted, without opposition, in the election of H.C. Bowen Captain, Thomas Ballard First, Jno. G. Lindsy Second and Jame P. NeSmith Third Lieutenants.
On Saturday 3rd inst., we again met at the 17th Court Grounds when the doors were again opened, and I learn that the list was run up to seventy-seven-thus in the short space of one week making almost a complete company from one militia district, as there is not a single member of the company that claims his residence anywhere else but in the Seventeenth.
Source: Source: p. 77, In the Shadow of the Pines, volume II, Wayne and Judy Dasher, published by the authors, 2001.
Jesse N. Thompson, David's brother, was one of the first to step forward and enroll with the Seventeenth Volunteers on Saturday, on July 27th, 1861. Frederick Green, Lewis M. and David W. Thompson enrolled on October 4th, 1861.
1867 VOTER: August 3, 1867, David Thompson name is found on the All Georgia, Returns of Qualified Voters and Reconstruction Oath Books, Thomas County, Precinct no. 754, Election District 7.
1896 DEATH: David died intestate and his estate was aministered in Hillsborough county, Florida probate court. Fred G. Thompson was appointed as administratior and Alfred Neeld and Thos. J. Stone were appointed as appraisers of the estate.
************************************************* Pine Landing is believed to have been east of Peru on the Alafia riverbanks. This tiny school was attended by members of some of Peru and Riverview's earliest families including the Whitts, Murphy's, Goolsbys, Sharps, Brandons, Killions, Symmes, Thompsons, Mays, Scotts, Kerseys, Baumings, Buzbees, Williams, Thomassons, Roddenberrys, Halls, Mansfields, Duzenburys, VanLandinghams, Caldwells, Alsobrooks, and Shakers. Many of these early settling families, who were primarily engaged in cattle raising, logging, and the planting of citrus groves, not only shared close friendships, but many of these intermarried. Source p. 12, Pioneering on the Lower Alafia and the Early Settlement of Peru, Sunland Tribune, November 1992.
Moved to Florida sometime between 1868 and 1870.
Resided at Crawford Mill on the 1870 U.S.Federal Census for Hillsborough Co., FL.
1890 POLL TAX: Hillsborough County, page 397 Source: p. 335, Hillsborough County, Florida Directory-Census, 1890, by Julius J. Gordon, 1993.
Thompson, David W. died Hillsborough County. Fred Thompson, Adm. TWT 16 July 1896 2:5. Source: Index, Tampa Weekly Tribune, Tampa, Florida: Index, 1896, Florida heritage collection. By Gordon, Julius J., 1996. Digitized from original source held at University of Sourth Florida Libraries
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