W.F. Martin

Federal (USV)

Lieutenant

Wilbur Fiske Martin

(1840 - 1865)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He was a 22 year old dentist in Tyrone, Butler County, PA before he mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company A, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 10 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the arm in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 4 May and mustered out with his Company on 18 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from Bates.1 His occupation and wound details from the History.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Scott D. Hann Collection, published in Military Images (September/October 2002).

He married Priscilla Scott (1840-1861).

Birth

02/25/1840

Death

06/27/1865; burial in Grandview Cemetery, Tyrone, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 111 - 112 [AotW citation 1257]

2 Wallace, William W. (Chairman), and the Regimental Committee, History of the One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, Philadelphia: J.B,. Lippincott Co., 1906, pp. 34, 86 [AotW citation 30497]

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