Joseph H. Marston

(1829 - 1920)
Home State: Wisconsin
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 6th Wisconsin Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
From Appleton, he enrolled in Company E, 6th Wisconsin Infantry as 2nd Lieutenant on 10 May 1861, and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 18 September 1861.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was wounded in the leg in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, and promoted to Captain (vice Captain Brown) on 18 September.

The remainder of the War:
He was wounded again in action at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He resigned his commission on 19 March 1864.

After the War:
He was Mayor of Appleton in 1877 and 1882.

References, Sources, and other notes:
Basic information from State of Wisconsin1. Further details from his gravesite on Findagrave. The photograph here from one of unknown provenance, hosted online by 7thwisconsin.org

More on the Web:
An excellent photograph of him, much later in life, is in the collection of the Appleton Public Library.

Birth Date: 06/01/1829 Place of Birth: Deerfield, NH
Death Date: 09/03/1920 Death Place: Appleton, WI Burial Place: Riverside Cemetery, Appleton, WI

Notes

1 State of Wisconsin, Adjutant General's Office, and Chandler P. Chapman, Adj. Gen., Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, 2 volumes, Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1886, Vol. 1, pp. 513 - 514 [AotW citation 6129]

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