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Confederate (CSA)

Lieutenant

Martin C. Dye

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 21 year old law student living with his widowed mother, brother Samuel, a medical student, and 3 slaves at Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there and mustered as First Sergeant of Company G, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 2 August 1861. He was appointed Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 10 June 1862 and was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 25 July.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

His mother Susan filed for his final pay in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Augusta, GA

Death

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD

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 33656]

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