Marston Clark Bartholomew

He went to Lexington, IL in 1831 at about age 25, and was an original settler of Lodi, WI, arriving there in 1845. In 1860 he was a 54 year old farmer there. He gave his age as 44 when he enlisted in Madison on 12 June 1861, and he mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company A, 7th Wisconsin Infantry on 16 August. He was hurt when a tree fell on him in his tent about 20 May 1862 and was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on 29 August.

He was injured in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam, where he:

received a severe contusion of the right hip & back from a fall while trying to climb a fence during battle, causing lameness and weakness of the back.

He was admitted to the Fairfax Seminary Hospital on 29 September, sent to the Convalescent Hospital at 6th & Filbert Streets in Philadelphia on 15 December, and on to the Chestnut Hill Hospital there on 2 January 1863. He returned to duty on 7 May but was back in a Philadelphia hospital with bronchitis by the end of the month. He was discharged there on 12 June 1863 for disability from his injuries and illness.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was again farming in Lodi. He began receiving a veteran's pension for disability in 1879.

His service from the State of Wisconsin1 and his Compiled Service Records (CSRs).2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. Thanks to Kathy Steckelberg for sharing her research in Bartholomew's CSRs and pension files. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Hopkins (1805-1886) in May 1828 and they had 9 children.

His sons John Marston (b. 1842, killed at Brawner's Farm on 28 August 1862) and Joseph Marriman Bartholomew (1837-1898) enlisted with him in Company A.

03/16/1806; Charlestown, IN

01/08/1881; Lodi, WI; burial in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Lodi, WI