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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Marsh

(1841 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Grahamville in Glascock County, GA on 5 May 1862 as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry. He was wounded in the hand on 1 July, place not given, admitted to the Howard's Grove Hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 July, and furloughed home on the 8th.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #5 in Richmond on 27 September, transferred to the Camp Winder hospital there on 19 October, and probably furloughed home to at least January 1863. He was discharged on 13 June 1863. He reenlisted in Company I of the 48th on 1 June 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3.

He's the younger of 2 John Marshes in Company A, both wounded at Sharpsburg. They are distinguished by "Jr." and "Sr." in the military records - probably due to their age difference, not because father and son.

Birth

1841; Glascock County, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 107 [AotW citation 31748]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31749]

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