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Federal (USA)

Private

Marshall H. Gibby

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: 6th United States Cavalry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old farmer, he enlisted at Columbus, OH on 2 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 6th United States Cavalry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the right arm in a skirmish at Barnesville, MD (near Sugar Loaf Mountain) on 10 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 11 October 1862 with no later record.

References & notes

His service from the Register.1

Birth

c. 1839; Washington County, PA

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 141, p. 290 [AotW citation 32285]

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