Marcellus Franklin Broyles

He moved from Tennessee to Georgia sometime after 1850 and was a 24 year old farm worker in Whitfield County when he enlisted as Private, Company B, Phillips' Legion Infantry Battalion on 4 March 1862.

He was captured in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was exchanged on 2 October 1862 and returned to duty. He was captured again, and possibly wounded, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was briefly held at Fort Delaware, then sent to a hospital in Chester, PA on 19 July. He was transferred to Point Lookout, MD on 4 October 1863 and exchanged in early 1864. He was killed in action at the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864.

His brother William Lowndes Broyles recovered his body and brought it home for burial.

His service from Graham,1 who has his birthplace as the Anderson District, SC. Further details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

07/16/1837; Greene County, TN

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, VA; burial in Sumach Cumberland Presbyterian Cemetery, Crandall, GA