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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Marcellus Franklin Broyles

(1837 - 1864)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Phillips' (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

He moved from Tennessee to Georgia sometime after 1850 and was a 24 year old farm worker in Whitfield County when he enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 4 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was captured again, and possibly wounded, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was briefly held at Fort Delaware, then sent to a hospital in Chester, PA on 19 July. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 4 October 1863 and exchanged in early 1864. He was killed in action at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

After the War

His brother William Lowndes Broyles recovered his body and brought it home for burial.

References & notes

His service from Graham,1 who has his birthplace as the Anderson District, SC. Further details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

07/16/1837; Greene County, TN

Death

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA; burial in Sumach Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Crandall, GA

Notes

1   Graham, Kurt D., Phillips Georgia Legion - Infantry Battalion, first accessed 20 September 2012, <http://www.angelfire.com/tx/RandysTexas/page4.html>, Source page: /InfCoB.html  [AotW citation 21851]