My g-grandfather George Washington THOMPSON was born 3 July 1840 in Loudoun County, VA to Louis Burke and Elizabeth Ann BURK THOMPSON. At the age of 8, George's family moved to Knox County, OH. At age 21, George enlisted in the 15th Regiment Ohio Company C Volunteer Infantry which was organized for a three stint. This unit participated in the following battles: Shiloh, Corinth, Stone River, Liberty Gap, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Cassville, Pickett's Mills, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Lovejoy Station, Franklin and Nashville. It was during the battle of Pickett's Mills at New Hope Church on 27 May 1864 that George Washington THOMPSON was mortally wounded in the thigh and left to die in the field. Somehow he lived through the night and into the afternoon of the next day laying in agony, unable to move. The next day, a Confederate surgeon happened upon him and seeing that he was still alive, the surgeon performed surgery that saved George's life. He was "captured" and transported to Andersonville and placed into a dog tent. Another injured prisoner was brought into the tent on a stretcher and died during the night. George was to see several men meet the same fate. In February 1865 a prisoner exchange had been arranged. More dead than alive, George was placed on a litter and carried to his waiting transportation-a cattle car. From there the train took him to Savanna, GA where he was transferred to his next mode of transportation-a foul smelling riverboat. Finally George reached the Union lines and was taken to the Union Hospital at Annapolis, MD. George told a newspaper writer many years later that "he never knew what comfort was till, washed and tended by loving hands, he laid in a clean soft bed, with just a little soup and crackers at intervals, so was brought back to life." George lived until 30 May 1895.