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Federal (USV)

Private

Martin Tobin

(c. 1834 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

A 27 year old miner from Schuylkill County, he enrolled on 29 August 1861 in Pottsville and mustered as a Private in Company C, 48th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 September in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged 28 June 1864 for wounds received in action.

References & notes

Basic service information from Gould,1 as Martin Toben, and the Card File,2 as Martin Tolan.
His gravesite is on Findagrave, but has probably mixed the military experience of two different men with similar or the same name.

Birth

c. 1834

Death

Date not known; burial in Saint Vincent De Paul Cemetery, Larksville, PA

Notes

1 Gould, Joseph, The Story of the Forty-eighth : a Record of the Campaigns of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry ..., Philadelphia: Regimental Association, 1908, pp. 82 - 90, 400 - 460 (rosters) [AotW citation 5494]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 27793]

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