John Garland Markham

In the late 1840s he published the Marion Review, and in 1850 was editor of The Commonwealth at Marion in Perry County, Al. After a stint as an editor at the Register & Advertiser in Mobile, AL, in 1856 he became editor of the Eastern Clarion in Paulding, Jasper County, MS. On 3 March 1862, then age 43, he enlisted at Paulding and was appointed 5th Sergeant of Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 April 1862 at the Army reorganization.

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg death also from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850 & 1860, and his death notice in the Augusta, GA Weekly Constitutionalist of October 1862 (original in the Mobile Register of 16 October).

He married Martha Alethian Hines (1833-1886) in August 1849 and they had 2 children.

11/23/1819; Chesterfield County, VA

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD