Marcus H. Henry

Age 21, from Lincoln County, he mustered as Private, Company K, First NC Volunteers on 25 April 1861, and mustered out on 12 November. He then mustered as Private, Company B, 23rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 March 1862. He was wounded in action at Seven Pines, VA on 3 May 1862, but returned to duty, date not given.

He was mortally wounded by gunshot which fractured his left knee and was captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was treated at a US hospital in Frederick, MD where his left leg was amputated at the thigh. He died there of wounds on 18 October 1862. He was originally buried "on west side of and in the cemetery [Mt Olivet] at Frederick." Probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

Burial information from Pruett1. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List, which has him also as Henry H. Markis.3 He is also listed among the Confederate soldiers buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, MD, and may still be there; his memorial at Mt. Olivet is on Findagrave, as Corporal.

c. 1840

10/18/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD