Henry Mortimer Marchant

He went with his family from Virginia to Texas at about age 6. On 11 July 1861 he enlisted as First Sergeant of Company A, 4th Texas Infantry at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County, and was elected 2nd Lieutenant of his Company on 25 May 1862.

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in the right shoulder in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was furloughed home on 12 October 1862 and returned to duty by the end of the year, though without most of the use of his right arm. He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 9 May 1863, was commanding the Company by February 1864, and was promoted to Captain on 6 May 1864. He was sick with chronic rheumatism from 18 October 1864 to 6 March 1865 in the Infirmary of St. Francis de Sales in Richmond, VA, and was then furloughed.

He was Collector of Internal Revenue at Austin, TX and Special Agent of the US Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from his obituary in the Confederate Veteran of November 1911 (Vol. 15, p. 511), which includes a post-war photograph of him. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/27/1843; Norfolk, VA

02/24/1907; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA