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PVT Marshall Walker Wellman

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PVT Marshall Walker Wellman

Birth
Brookline, Windham County, Vermont, USA
Death
22 Jun 1862 (aged 16)
Raceland Junction, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Chalmette, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, USA
Plot
Section 71 Plot 5786
Memorial ID
199763712 View Source

PVT VT US ARMY CIVIL WAR

Marshall Walker Wellman, b. at Brookline, 25 March 1846; enlisted in the Eighth Vermont Regiment at the age of 16 yrs. in 1862; went in the expedition to Ship Island; thence to New Orleans.

He was the first man shot in the regiment, in a skirmish near Bisland, on the Opelousas Railroad, 22 June 1862, ae. 16 yrs., 2 mos., 27 days.; buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery near New Orleans, La. A cenotaph was erected to his memory in the family lot in Brookline, Vt.
Contributor: David M Morin (47707736) •

You can view the Cenotaph here: Cenotaph

PVT VT US ARMY CIVIL WAR

Marshall Walker Wellman, b. at Brookline, 25 March 1846; enlisted in the Eighth Vermont Regiment at the age of 16 yrs. in 1862; went in the expedition to Ship Island; thence to New Orleans.

He was the first man shot in the regiment, in a skirmish near Bisland, on the Opelousas Railroad, 22 June 1862, ae. 16 yrs., 2 mos., 27 days.; buried in the Soldiers' Cemetery near New Orleans, La. A cenotaph was erected to his memory in the family lot in Brookline, Vt.
Contributor: David M Morin (47707736) •

You can view the Cenotaph here: Cenotaph


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