Wolcott Pascal Marsh

A knife salesman in Hartford, CT by 1860, he enlisted as a Private in Rifle Company A, First Connecticut Infantry for 3 months' service on 23 April 1861. He was at First Manassas then was discharged, on 31 July 1861. He enrolled as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry and mustered as such on 25 September 1861. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 24 December 1861 and to Captain of Company F in May 1862.

He led his Company in Maryland in 1862.

He resigned his commission, probably for health reasons, on 22 December 1862.

He was a farmer in Simsbury and Bloomfield, CT, then a clerk in Hartford. By 1870 he was a merchant in Springfield, MA, listed as a shoe dealer there in 1880. He went west to a farm at Ontario, CA about 1890 but died there in 1894.

His service basics from Ingersoll.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a copy of a photograph of unknown provenance, hosted online by the US Volunteers (reenactors).

He married Anna Cecelia Thompson (1841-1912) in May 1861 at Simsburg, CT, and they had 4 children.

Lieutenant Ariel J. Case of the 16th Connecticut was Wolcott's brother-in-law, their wives were sisters.

His 1861-62 letters to his wife were compiled by Sandra Marsh Mercer and Jerry Mercer as Letters to a Civil War Bride: The Civil War Letters of Captain Wolcott Pascal Marsh (2006).

Some of his family papers and letters are in the Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor[finding aid].

03/15/1839; Brooklyn, NY

08/03/1894; Ontario, CA; burial in Bellevue Memorial Park, Ontario, CA