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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John H. Martin

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer in Bowdon, GA, he enlisted in Eastville, AL on 12 July 1861 (or Randolph County, AL on 26 July) and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, but escaped and returned to duty. He was ill in Richmond, VA hospitals in June and July, then sent to the prison in Castle Thunder in Richmond in August. He was court-martialed in September 1863, charges not given. He was listed as a deserter in February 1864 with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2

Birth

c. 1843 in GA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32742]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32743]

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