Company A 32nd USCT

Jesse G. Thompson was born around 1844, in Carlisle Pennsylvania, to parents Benjamin and Mary Thompson. In 1850 he was the youngest child in his household at six years old, with three older siblings named William, Richard, and Jane.¹ In 1860 he was sixteen years old and working as a laborer, with two younger siblings named George and Mary.² Thompson enlisted into Company A of the 32^nd U.S.C.T. as a private, on February 17, 1864, in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.