Notes for Thomas Goldsmith Richardson II
Veteran of the Civil
War, enlisting on June 22, 1861, at Edgeton, Wisconsin.
He was a private in the infantry of Company E, 5th Regiment, and he
suffered a "slight leg wound" at the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia
on May 5, 1862. He was discharged
on July 18, 1862 and carried a bullet in his knee until his death.
He was the first of the
two brothers to migrate to Iowa, where he farmed between Fredericksburg and
Lawler, later moving to the edge of Fredericksburg.