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(c. 1832 - 1862)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Going my Marion, in 1860 he was a married 28 year old farmer on John Rothenburger's vineyard at Six Mile, AL. He enlisted there with his brother Jackson as a Private in Company F, 44th Alabama Infantry on 14 March 1862 in Bibb County.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and was captured there.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds while still "in the hands of the enemy" on 10 October 1862. His widow Apply filed for his final pay of $110.38 in February 1863 and again in May 1864.
References & notes
His service from the State of Alabama,1 as Marion F. Trucks, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as F. Marion Trucks. He's also on a casualty list in the Montgomery Weekly Advertiser of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
He married Appy Caroline Cottingham (1838-1920) in December 1856 and they had 3 children.
Birth
c. 1832; Bibb County, AL
Death
10/10/1862; in MD
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=205720 [AotW citation 25732]
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 31658]