Short Biography of Thomas W. Scott

THOMAS WILLIAM SCOTT was in the grocery business till the beginning of the Civil War, when he enlisted in Company F, Seventeenth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and served as sergeant major. He was in the battles of Frederickton, Mo., Fort Donaldson, Shiloh, Inka, and Hutche Bridge, and various skirmishes. He was wounded at Shiloh and discharged on account of ill helath, November, 1862. He went to California in 1865 and has been employed in the United States Custom House continuously ever since.

Source: "A Chapter of Hopkins Genealogy" ⁶⁴³⁰