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(c. 1827 - 1863)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 33 year old farmer at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. His 39 year old wife Elizabeth owned 5 slaves. He enlisted at Grahamville, GA on 5 May 1862 as a Private in Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was wounded, bruised in the shoulder, 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 and returned to duty on 12 October, but he died of typhoid fever in camp near Guinea Station, VA on 28 February 1863. His widow applied for his final pay in August 1863.
References & notes
His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Elizabeth Boyd (1820-) in March 1847.
He's the older 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
c. 1827; Warren County, GA
Death
02/28/1863; Guinea Station, VA
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 31750]
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 31751]