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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Marcus W. Greenbury White

(c. 1841 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old living with his parents, siblings, and (?) slaves on their plantation near Montgomery, AL. He enlisted there on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry. He was promoted to Corporal on 11 July 1862.

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 sent home on furlough on 6 February 1863 and was in a Richmond, VA hospital on 2 May. He was sent to CS General Hospital #2 in Danville, VA on 11 May and died there of chronic diarrhea on 17 June 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives,2 both as Marcus G. White. Personal details from the US Census of 1850 (as Greenbury White) & 1860.

Birth

c. 1841 in AL

Death

06/17/1863; Danville, VA

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 33003]

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 33004]

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