1. Thomas Allcock was the inventor of a plaster for pain relief, the founder of the Allcock Manufacturing Company and an artillery officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
11 Facts About Thomas Allcock
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Thomas Allcock was one of the military judges in the trial of Henry Wirz.
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Thomas Allcock joined the New York State Militia, and was appointed Captain on 27 October 1856 with the Second Brigade, a post he held until the outbreak of the American Civil War.
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Thomas Allcock was made Assistant Adjutant General on 13 April 1861, headquartered in the New York Depot.
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Thomas Allcock was engaged in the battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Totopotomoy, Hanover Court House, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, first and second Deep Bottom, Weldon Railroad, and Ream's Station.
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Thomas Allcock was wounded while in command of the Third Battalion at the First Battle of Ream's Station on 25 August 1864, for which he was appointed brevet colonel.
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Thomas Allcock was on detached duty as an invalid from September 1864 to December 2,1865 when he was discharged due to the end of the war.
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Thomas Allcock returned to New York after the war and joined up with Benjamin Brandreth in the manufacturing and sale of popular patent medicines.
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Thomas Allcock died on 27 December 1891, in New York City, of a stroke.
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Thomas Allcock was buried at Dale Cemetery in Ossining, New York.
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Thomas Allcock was survived by two sons and two daughters.