Orwig, Thomas R.

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Dickinson Connection
Class of 1859
    Full name
    Thomas R. Orwig
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Death Date Certainty
    Estimated
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    Education
    Dickinson (Carlisle College)
    Military
    Union Army

    Thomas R. Orwig (Dickinson Chronicles)

    Scholarship
    The son of a Carlisle minister, Thomas Orwig prepared at the Dickinson College Grammar School for two years before entering the College in 1855 as a member of the class of 1859.  Although Orwig left Dickinson after his sophomore year when his family moved to New Berlin, Pennsylvania, while at the College he was a member of the Belles Lettres Literary Society.

    Orwig received his bachelor of arts degree from Lewisburg in 1862 and then joined the Union army soon after, rising to the rank of sergeant.  He died later that year in a naval hospital in Washington, D.C.
    John Osborne and James W. Gerencser, eds., “Thomas R. Orwig,” Dickinson Chronicles, http://chronicles.dickinson.edu/encyclo/o/ed_orwigT.htm.
    How to Cite This Page: "Orwig, Thomas R.," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/6337.