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Home State: Mississippi
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Knoxville, MS as a Private in Company I, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 19 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was left behind, sick, at Frederick, MD and captured there on 12 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was a prisoner in Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aiken's Landing, VA. He was declared exchanged and returned to his Company on 10 November 1862. He was on furlough in February 1864 but never returned.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry.
He may be Marcus Lafayette Watson (1844-1922) born Lowndes County, MS, died McLennan County, TX.
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 29042]