He married Lavinia Fitting February 28, 1850, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and fathered John (b. @1858) and five others, none of whom apparently survived their parents. In 1860, he was a laborer living with his family in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, and stood 5' 5" tall with light hair and light eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-nine in Harrisburg February 27, 1865, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I. Assigned as a cook, according to his second lieutenant Henry Crist, he did not even carry a rifle. At the battle of Saylor's Creek on April 6, he was assigned to assisting wounded men to the rear and upon his return to the regiment, he recalled, "I fell over a log and hurt me in my groin," i.e., he was ruptured on the right side. A witness claimed Martin was then "trampled" by a rush of soldiers. He honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.
By 1874, he was living in Steelton, Dauphin County, and in 1883 applied successfully for a disability pension for the rupture he reported suffering during the war. He died from "sunstroke & cordial paralysis" [i.e., loss of voice - unlikely], although his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent claims "heart disease, superinduced by the heat."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-nine in Harrisburg February 27, 1865, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I. Assigned as a cook, according to his second lieutenant Henry Crist, he did not even carry a rifle. At the battle of Saylor's Creek on April 6, he was assigned to assisting wounded men to the rear and upon his return to the regiment, he recalled, "I fell over a log and hurt me in my groin," i.e., he was ruptured on the right side. A witness claimed Martin was then "trampled" by a rush of soldiers. He honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.
By 1874, he was living in Steelton, Dauphin County, and in 1883 applied successfully for a disability pension for the rupture he reported suffering during the war. He died from "sunstroke & cordial paralysis" [i.e., loss of voice - unlikely], although his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent claims "heart disease, superinduced by the heat."
He married Lavinia Fitting February 28, 1850, in Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, and fathered John (b. @1858) and five others, none of whom apparently survived their parents. In 1860, he was a laborer living with his family in South Hanover Township, Dauphin County, and stood 5' 5" tall with light hair and light eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-nine in Harrisburg February 27, 1865, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I. Assigned as a cook, according to his second lieutenant Henry Crist, he did not even carry a rifle. At the battle of Saylor's Creek on April 6, he was assigned to assisting wounded men to the rear and upon his return to the regiment, he recalled, "I fell over a log and hurt me in my groin," i.e., he was ruptured on the right side. A witness claimed Martin was then "trampled" by a rush of soldiers. He honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.
By 1874, he was living in Steelton, Dauphin County, and in 1883 applied successfully for a disability pension for the rupture he reported suffering during the war. He died from "sunstroke & cordial paralysis" [i.e., loss of voice - unlikely], although his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent claims "heart disease, superinduced by the heat."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted at the stated age of thirty-nine in Harrisburg February 27, 1865, and mustered into federal service that day as a private with the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry in the second organization of Co. I. Assigned as a cook, according to his second lieutenant Henry Crist, he did not even carry a rifle. At the battle of Saylor's Creek on April 6, he was assigned to assisting wounded men to the rear and upon his return to the regiment, he recalled, "I fell over a log and hurt me in my groin," i.e., he was ruptured on the right side. A witness claimed Martin was then "trampled" by a rush of soldiers. He honorably discharged with his company June 29, 1865.
By 1874, he was living in Steelton, Dauphin County, and in 1883 applied successfully for a disability pension for the rupture he reported suffering during the war. He died from "sunstroke & cordial paralysis" [i.e., loss of voice - unlikely], although his obituary in the Harrisburg Daily Independent claims "heart disease, superinduced by the heat."
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