Melville Fiske Norris

He was an unmarried 20 year old student from Marion, AL when he enlisted as Private on 24 April 1861 in Company G, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was present at most engagements from First to Second Manassas.

Present in action at Boonsboro and Sharpsburg.

In action with his Company from Fredericksburg, VA in December 1862 through Chickamauga and Chattanooga in 1863. He was detailed as a provost guard on 3 January 1864. He was among the soldiers surrendered 9 April 1865 at Appomattox Courthouse, VA.

He married in Allen, KS in 1870, and was a grocer living in Humbolt, KS at the 1870 US Census. He does not appear with his family there at the 1880 census.

Basic information from State of Alabama1, which lists him as Melville S. Norris. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Details from family genealogists.

1842 in AL

Date not known; burial in Mount Hope Cemetery, Humboldt, KS