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C. Marshall
(1830 - 1902)
Home State: Virginia
Education: University of Virginia
Command Billet: Staff Officer
Branch of Service: Staff
Before Sharpsburg
He was a professor at the University of Indiana (1849-52) then a lawyer in Baltimore, MD. He was appointed Lieutenant and aide de camp (ADC) to General R.E. Lee on 22 March 1862 and promoted to Major on 21 April.
On the Campaign
He was an ADC to General Lee on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and Assistant Adjutant General on 25 February 1864 and was slightly wounded 18 May 1864. He continued on General Lee's staff to the surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.
After the War
He returned to his law practice in Baltimore.
References & notes
Birth
10/03/1830; Warrenton, VA
Death
04/19/1902; Baltimore, MD; burial in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore, MD
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 214 [AotW citation 29375]
2 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, editor in chief, Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12, Vol. 10, pg. 71 [AotW citation 29376]