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Thomas O. Bigney (Ann Arbor, Michigan, chemist and soldier)

b. 1833?

Rock County, Wisconsin, chemist and soldier. Native of Novia Scotia. Son of Peter Bigney and Margaret Bigney. Resident of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in 1850. Chemist in Rock County, Wisconsin, in 1860. Medical student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1861. Served in the 13th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major from October 10, 1861 to November 24, 1864. Served as post commander at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, Woburn, p. 270B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Wisconsin, Rock County, Spring Valley, p. 637.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of the University of Michigan for 1861, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1861), 19.

Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, Vol. I (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1886), 739.

U.S., Returns from Military Posts, 1806-1916, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, NARA Series M617, RG 94, Roll 1543.

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Bigney, Thomas O.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214387 (November 12, 2026).

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