Nathaniel Frederick Marsh

He came to New York from England by 1847 and in 1850 was a pharmacist (chemist) at Honesdale, Wayne County, PA. After graduating from medical school he practiced in Scranton, PA from (1857-60) and back in Honesdale.

He was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, 5th Pennsylvania Reserves on 21 June 1861, and was promoted to Surgeon and assigned to the 4th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 7 October 1861. He was captured when he stayed behind to treat wounded troops after the battle at Glendale, VA of 30 June 1862. He was paroled and exchanged to return to duty in August.

He was with the regiment in Maryland in 1862 and probably treated his mortally wounded Colonel J.H. Childs at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He resigned his commission on 6 December 1862. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon, US Volunteers on 13 October 1863 and promoted to Surgeon on 19 January 1864. He was honored by brevet to Lieutenant Colonel of Volunteers for his war service and mustered out on 7 October 1865.

His service from Heitman1 and Bates.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His education from the Minutes of the Regents of the University [of the State of New York] (8 March 1855) and his practice in Scranton is from Dr. Horace Hollister's History of the Lackawanna Valley (1885). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ellen Dimmick (1831-1911) and they had a daughter Lucretia (1856-1938).

See the story of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps in action at Glendale in 1862, and Dr. Marsh's role in the subsequent row between Generals McCall and Hooker, in a fine piece by Justin Sanders for the Pennsylvania Reserve Volunteer Corps Historical Society.

12/11/1824 in ENGLAND

08/20/1867; burial in Bloomingburg Rural Cemetery, Orange County, NY