Thomas Sturgis

Thomas Sturgis was born on April 6 or 30, 1846, to Wiliam and Elizabeth Sturgis, in New York City. He attended New York City public schools, including Grammar School No. 40. When he was 16, Sturgis began working as a clerk at a wholesale dry goods house. ==Military service==

Upon the outbreak of the American Civil War, Sturgis joined the twenty-second regiment of the New York State Militia. When he turned 18 in 1864, Sturgis enlisted in the Sixtieth Massachusetts Regiment, commissioned as a first lieutenant and adjutant of the Sixtieth regiment. Sturgis served as post-adjutant of a prisoner-of-war camp near Camp Morton in Indiana in the summer and fall of 1864. After the Sixtieth was mustered out, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Fifty-seventh, serving in various capacities as an aide-de-camp and an assistant adjutant general at the army camp, rising to be assistant adjutant general of the First Division of the Ninth Army Corps, attached to the Army of the Potomac. At the Battle of Fort Stedman (March 25, 1865), Sturgis was taken prisoner, held in Libby Prison, and exchanged, serving until the end of the war in 1865. ==Career==

After the conclusion of the war, Sturgis briefly studied law, He was secretary of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association for 14 years, and secretary of the National Cattle Growers Association. ==References==