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G.H. Marsh
(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Connecticut Infantry
Before Antietam
From Hartford, he was a 29 year old carpenter when he enlisted in Company A, 8th Connecticut Infantry. He mustered into service as Corporal on 25 September 1861.
On the Campaign
He was killed on the Henry Rohrbach farm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862
... by the first cannon-shot that went through the ranks, at sunrise. He was ill, but determined to be at his post; and there he died, a trusty soldier with a spotless reputation.
References & notes
Death and burial information from Banks1. Service dates from Ingersoll2. The quote above from the History.3 His age and occupation also found in the Catalogue of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Regiments of Infantry ... Connecticut Volunteers, 1861 (Hartford: CT Adjutant-General, 1862). The photograph here from a fine cased image kindly provided by John Banks from his collection.
Birth
c. 1832
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
1 Banks, John, Connecticut Antietam Death List, Connecticut: self-published, 2013 [AotW citation 12516]
2 Ingersoll, Colin Macrae, Adjutant-General, Catalogue of Connecticut Volunteer Organizations in the Service of the United States, 1861-1865, Hartford: Brown & Gross, 1869, pg. 364 [AotW citation 13096]
3 Croffut, W. A., and John M. Morris, The Military and Civil History of Connecticut during the War of 1861-65, New York: Ledyard Bill, 1868, p. 277 [AotW citation 30601]
