Hello...my name is Dean Thomas. I have been researching the 128th NYSVI regiment for over 10 years. My interest began when I first learned that my great-great grandfather had fought for the Union Army during the Civil War; J Howard Asher was a 2nd Sergeant and later a 2nd Lieutenant of the 128th's Company 'C'.

By day I work as a software design and development engineer for the Xerox Corporation. I am married with three children and live near the shores of Lake Ontario just east of Rochester, New York in the USA.