James Marshall

He enlisted on 14 June 1861 in Pittsburgh and mustered on 11 July for 3 years as a Corporal in Company H, 28th Pennsylvania Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to the frontal skull bone in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

He was sent to the Carver Hospital in Washington, DC on 30 October and transferred to the Patterson Park Hospital in Baltimore on 8 January 1863. He was treated there for "cephalalgia and neuralgia" (head and nerve pain) to 29 August 1863, then returned to his unit. He was probably wounded again, place and date unknown, by a gunshot to his right wrist and hand with loss of part of his little finger. He was discharged on 20 July (or 9 August) 1864 at Madison, IN at the end of his term of enlistment.

In 1870 he was a shoemaker in Allegheny City, PA. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in February 1879 and by 1880 was a freight conductor in Allegheny City. He was still there in 1890. On 15 November 1895, age 53, he was admitted to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers at Dayton, OH, with "partial inability to earn a support by manual labor." He was back with his family and again a shoemaker in Allegheny City in 1900.

Basic service information from Bates.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1900, his pension card online from fold3, the 1890 US Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, and the Historical Registers of National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.

He married Christianna McCain (1842-) in about 1865 and they had at least 3 children.

05/1842 in IRELAND

11/22/1901; Allegheny City, PA