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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Marion Washington Page

(1840 - 1905)

Home State: Florida

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 5th Florida Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He mustered as Private, Company B, 5th Florida Infantry on 26 March 1862. Promoted to Sergeant, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right knee in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He lost his right leg from his Sharpsburg wound, and was discharged for disability on 13 March 1863 in Madison County, FL.

After the War

In 1870 he was a blacksmith, and was listed as a farmer in 1880. He applied for a Florida disability pension in 1902.

References & notes

Basic information from State of Florida1. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source, along with family genealogists, of further life details.

Birth

08/21/1840 in GA

Death

01/21/1905; Trilby, FL; burial in Lacoochee Cemetery, Lacoochee, FL

Notes

1 State of Florida, Board of State Institutions, Soldiers of Florida in the Seminole Indian, Civil and Spanish-American Wars, Live Oak (FL): Democrat Print, 1903, pp. 142 - 147 [AotW citation 15471]

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