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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Stephen Harrison Marks

(1841 - 1917)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Son of prosperous shoe & boot manufacturer (w/1 slave), in 1860 he was a 19 year old laborer living with his parents, 3 younger siblings, and maternal aunt Sarah (+8 slaves) in Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1910 he was a farmer at Steele Creek in Mecklenburg County, NC.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Lavinia Vann Parker (1851-1930) in about 1870 and they had 13 children.

Birth

04/10/1841; Mecklenburg County, NC

Death

03/29/1917; Mecklenburg County, NC; burial in Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 478 [AotW citation 33167]

2 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 33168]

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