John Marshall

In 1860 he was a 48 year old stonemason in Allegheny City, PA. He enlisted on 27 July 1861 as Private in Company L of the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry.

At age 50 he was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was buried on the battlefield and later reinterred in the National Cemetery. It is his gravesite seen under a dead tree in the famous Alexander Gardner photograph taken 2 or 3 days after the battle.

Basic information from the Antietam Cemetery History1, with photointerpretation and additional research by Bill Frassanito2. His service basics from Bates.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Hood (c. 1830-) and they had 2 sons (1859, 1861).

c. 1812; County Dublin, IRELAND

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD