William E. Thompson, Private, Company K, 15th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, enlisted June 20, 1862 at Lyn Beach by Capt. Burroughs for 3 years, detailed as Qtr. M. Sergeant ca Mar/Apr, 1863, served as QM Clerk July & August, 1863 and as Forage Master Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 1863, last recorded present on Co. K's March & April, 1864 muster roll dated October 18,1864 where they were stationed near Strasburg, this was the last surviving muster roll
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William Thompson, Private, Company G, 16th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, enlisted September 2, 1862 in Wayne County, Va. by M. J. Ferguson, admitted to USA Gettysburg, Pa. Gen. July 1-3, 1863 as a POW having received a gun shot wound fracturing left leg, amputated, captured February 15, 1864* in Wayne County, Va., transferred to McLean Barracks, Cincinnati, Ohio, from Louisa, Ky., February 17, 1864, arrived Louisville, Ky., Military Prison by February 25, 1864, sent to Fort Deleware, Del., prison camp, February 29 arriving March 7, died February 7, 1865 from Dropsy of Chest, buried on Jersey Shore
M324: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia
* One has to wonder why he was picked up and taken prisoner when he must have been living at home, and must have been discharged as a disabled soldier with an amputated leg, although his records are lacking following his post Gettysburg hospitilization.