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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Marian Kennan Alston

(1836 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Education: South Carolina College, Class of 1858

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 15th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a wealthy planter, in 1860 he was a 24 year old living with his father, sister, and 77 slaves at Winnsboro in the Fairfield District, SC. He enlisted on 1 Februray 1862 at Union Court House, SC and mustered as a Private in Company F, 15th South Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

References & notes

His service from the Roll 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, also as Marion. His gravesite is on Findagrave. Thanks to James Hull for the pointer to Alston and his connection with the South Carolina College.

Birth

08/12/1836

Death

09/14/1862; Fox's Gap, MD; burial in Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Greenville, SC

Notes

1 Thomas, John P., and and previous SC Historians of the Confederate Records, Confederate Rolls of South Carolina, Columbia: Historian of Confederate Records, 1898, Roll of Company F, 15th Reg't Inf, South Carolina Vols. [AotW citation 24858]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32271]

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