John William Marshall

Of English-born parents, in 1860 he was a 24 year old master carpenter in New York City living with his (widowed?) mother Anne and aunt Jane in New York City. He enrolled on 26 April 1861 in New York City and mustered on April 30 as Captain, Company D, 10th New York Infantry. He was appointed the first Major of the regiment 2 days later on 2 May and Lieutenant Colonel on 23 December (to date from 31 October 1861).

He commanded the regiment in Maryland. They were in reserve at Antietam on 17 September and not actively engaged.

He mustered out of the service as the regiment became a battalion at the end of its two-year term of service on 7 May 1863.

By 1870 he was a builder and architect in New York City and in 1880 was an architect living with his wife, mother-in-law, and 3 of his wife's siblings at 207 West 17th Street in New York City. He was still at that address in the 1890 US Veterans Census, and he began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1904. His widow Agnes Jane received a pension from his service after his death.

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 who has his age as 31 at enlistment in 1861. Personal details from the New York Times of 26 April 1861, the Upper East Side Historic District Designation Report (Vol. 2, 1980) [pdf], US Census of 1860-1880, his Pension Card, online from fold3, the Congressional Record of 12 February 1909, and his NYC death record. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph of unknown provenance posted to the Historical Data Systems database. Thanks to Jim Smith for the poke to correct Marshall's information.

He married Agnes Jane Russell (1838-1910) on 24 April 1861 in New York City - two days before he enrolled for war service.

A late 1861 news clipping hosted by the New York State Military Museum noted that with the absence, sick, of Colonel W.W. McChesney and the death of Lieutenant Colonel A.B. Elder ...

... The command of the regiment thus fell to Major John W. Marshall, long known in New York city, and one of the most gentlemanly, able and efficient officers in the volunteer service. No officer in the regiment has ever stood higher in the estimate of its men. He has a deep and abiding hold upon the hearts of all, and we apprehend not a single man in the regiment but would follow wherever he should lead. He was soon commissioned by Governor Morgan as Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment, which position he has filled with distinction, and conferred honor upon his State. He is also known and beloved for his urbanity and gentlemanly deportment outside of his own immediate regiment, and at the same time that we should rejoice in his promotion to some more worthy position in the service of the Government, yet we should regret exceedingly to take him from the 10th regiment. Col. Marshall has done more to keep the regiment together, during the vicissitudes through which it has passed since its organization, than any other officer. They have looked up to him, and reposed in him the most entire confidence, both as a brave man and an upright Christian gentleman.

1837; New York City, NY

02/20/1908; Manhattan, New York City, NY; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY