Mark Wiley Kemp

He studied medicine in Chulafinnee, AL and spent a year in medical school in Philadelphia, PA in 1859, then practiced in Wedowee, Randolph County, AL. He enrolled on 19 July 1861 at Montgomery, AL and was elected Junior 2nd Lieutenant of Company D of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to Senior 2nd Lieutenant on 10 October 1861, was acting Surgeon of the regiment in January and February 1862, and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 11 June 1862.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He signed a parole near Keedysville, MD on 20 September and was exchanged and returned to duty on 15 November 1862. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and was captured nearby at Greencastle, PA on 5 July. He was treated at a hospital in Chambersburg, PA, sent to Harrisburg, PA on 17 August, and on to the West's Buildings hospital in Baltimore on 3 September. He was a prisoner at Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH from 29 September 1863 to 21 March 1865 when he was sent to Point Lookout, MD. He was transferred again, to Fort Delaware on 28 April. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there and was released on 12 June 1865.

He again practiced medicine, at Chulafinnee, AL until 1868, when he moved to Springfield in Limestone County, TX. He went to Tulane in New Orleans, graduated in 1869, then practiced in Springfield to 1872. He moved to Mexia, TX and started a drug business, which he ran to at least 1880. He was fully retired and living comfortably in Mexia by 1893.

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 & 1880, and a bio sketch in Lewis' A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas (1893). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Belle McKenzie (1848-1934) in 1872.

11/23/1832; Cobb County, GA

01/05/1898; Mexia, TX; burial in Mexia City Cemetery, Mexia, TX