Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Thompson FULTON
William received a common school education and then attended an academy conducted by Evan Pugh. In the spring of 1852 he commenced learning the trade of a blacksmith and worked at the business about four years, when he resolved to forgo the hammer and anvil and enter one of the "learned professions". With this object in view, in the fall of 1856 he entered the office of Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, at Lancaster, and remained there eighteen months. During this time he was an assiduous student but his limited circumstances prevented him from completing his studies in the usual period allotted to the study of the law.
Leaving Mr. Stevens' office, he taught school and pursued his studies at intervals. On the 18th of May, 1861, he was admitted to the bar of Chester County. Soon afterward he opened an office at Oxford, in that county. The rebellion breaking out, and clients being scarce, young Fulton threw down his law-tomes and entered the service. He assisted in raising a company, and on the 1st of September, 1861, was mustered into the service of the U.S. as Captain of Co. E., Purnell Legion, Maryland Volunteers. He remained in the army until the last of January 1863, when he was honorably discharged on "account of disability.". While in the army, he took part in many engagements in the Shenandoah valley and Eastern Virginia. At the battle of Antietam he held the third position in his regiment. The colonel and lieutenant-colonel being absent, the command of the regiment devolved upon Major Fulton (he having been promoted previous to this battle). It was ordered into action at sunrise of that day and remained under fire until one o'clock P.M. During this battle, many of those in the regiment were killed or wounded, but Major Fulton came out of the action unscathed. Since the war he has resided in the borough of Oxford, where he practiced his profession.
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