Russell Rupert Martin

In 1860 he was a 27 year old farm worker living with step-father Gabriel Sturkie, mother Martha, 4 step-siblings, and brother Allen on a small farm near Bull Swamp in the Orangeburg (later Lexington) District, SC. He enlisted at James Island, SC on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B (later K), First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at 2nd Manassas on 29 or 30 August 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was furloughed home from a Richmond, VA hospital on 26 October for 30 days and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862.

By December 1862 he was listed in prison in Richmond, VA, and by April 1863 had been fined $30 by a general court martial there - charges not found. He was detailed to arrest deserters in South Carolina on 25 August 1863 and wounded in action in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 6 July 1864 and was wounded again, by a gunshot to his neck at Farmville, VA, and sent to a hospital there on 7 (or 10) April 1865 with no later military record.

By 1880 he was a farmer in Orangeburg County, SC. In 1900 and to at least 1910 he was farming at Swansea in nearby Lexington County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; the US War Department provided his headstone in 1936.

He married Lavinia Brown (1839-1891) and they had 3 children between 1861 and 1867, and possibly one in 1890. He married again, Estelle Tindal (1869-1935) and they had 4 more between 1894 and 1904.

His brother Allen was also in Company K and in Maryland in 1862.

01/27/1833; Lexington District, SC

1910; burial in Ebenezer United Methodist Church & Cemetery, Swansea, SC