J.E. Martin
(c. 1834 - 1862)
Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a wealthy 26 year old planter with 52 slaves at Beulah in Bolivar County, MS. He was elected Captain of Company I, 2nd Battalion, Mississippi State Troops on 19 August 1861 in Knoxville; his rank to date from 27 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in action and afterward missing, presumed "in the hands of the enemy" at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was later listed as killed outright at Sharpsburg.
The rest of the War
His father William H Martin filed for his final pay in 1863.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi. His picture from a group photograph of 3 Mississippi officers now in the Gary Stier Confederate Collection, shared to Civil War Talk as part of a story by Laura Elliott on the killing of another of those 3 men - Captain Bellamy - by Sharpsburg veteran Thomas John Walton. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.
Birth
c. 1834; Claiborne County, MS
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 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 28951]