Contributed by Dennis Brandt:
1ST LEUT. CO. C, 3RD PA. ART. 152 REG.
The son of William & Elizabeth (Starr) Martin, in 1860 he was a nail cutter living in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he first served as a private with Co. H, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, September 11 - 24, 1862, during the Antietam crisis. He then enlisted in Harrisburg October 18, 1862, and mustered into federal service there October 20 as a private with Battery C, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to corporal November 10, 1862, to sergeant February 13, 1864, to 2nd lieutenant July 25, 1864, and to 1st lieutenant June 20, 1865. Allegedly, he was among those who guarded the captive Jefferson Davis after the war and claimed that he struck up many a conversation with the former Confederate president.
He married Laura C. Bowman in 1868 and fathered Sarah A. (b. @1868), William F. (b. @1872), Frank J. (b. @1875), Sylvania (b. @1878), George Warren (b. 1880), Laura A. (B. @1886), and Thomson S. (b. @1888). After the war, he lived for six years in Goldsboro, York County, but the rest of his life in West Fairview Township. There he worked as a teacher, merchant, and politician, and it is where he died from "epithelioma [of the] face."
1ST LEUT. CO. C, 3RD PA. ART. 152 REG.
The son of William & Elizabeth (Starr) Martin, in 1860 he was a nail cutter living in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he first served as a private with Co. H, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, September 11 - 24, 1862, during the Antietam crisis. He then enlisted in Harrisburg October 18, 1862, and mustered into federal service there October 20 as a private with Battery C, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to corporal November 10, 1862, to sergeant February 13, 1864, to 2nd lieutenant July 25, 1864, and to 1st lieutenant June 20, 1865. Allegedly, he was among those who guarded the captive Jefferson Davis after the war and claimed that he struck up many a conversation with the former Confederate president.
He married Laura C. Bowman in 1868 and fathered Sarah A. (b. @1868), William F. (b. @1872), Frank J. (b. @1875), Sylvania (b. @1878), George Warren (b. 1880), Laura A. (B. @1886), and Thomson S. (b. @1888). After the war, he lived for six years in Goldsboro, York County, but the rest of his life in West Fairview Township. There he worked as a teacher, merchant, and politician, and it is where he died from "epithelioma [of the] face."
Contributed by Dennis Brandt:
1ST LEUT. CO. C, 3RD PA. ART. 152 REG.
The son of William & Elizabeth (Starr) Martin, in 1860 he was a nail cutter living in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he first served as a private with Co. H, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, September 11 - 24, 1862, during the Antietam crisis. He then enlisted in Harrisburg October 18, 1862, and mustered into federal service there October 20 as a private with Battery C, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to corporal November 10, 1862, to sergeant February 13, 1864, to 2nd lieutenant July 25, 1864, and to 1st lieutenant June 20, 1865. Allegedly, he was among those who guarded the captive Jefferson Davis after the war and claimed that he struck up many a conversation with the former Confederate president.
He married Laura C. Bowman in 1868 and fathered Sarah A. (b. @1868), William F. (b. @1872), Frank J. (b. @1875), Sylvania (b. @1878), George Warren (b. 1880), Laura A. (B. @1886), and Thomson S. (b. @1888). After the war, he lived for six years in Goldsboro, York County, but the rest of his life in West Fairview Township. There he worked as a teacher, merchant, and politician, and it is where he died from "epithelioma [of the] face."
1ST LEUT. CO. C, 3RD PA. ART. 152 REG.
The son of William & Elizabeth (Starr) Martin, in 1860 he was a nail cutter living in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
A Civil War veteran, he first served as a private with Co. H, 1st Pennsylvania Militia, September 11 - 24, 1862, during the Antietam crisis. He then enlisted in Harrisburg October 18, 1862, and mustered into federal service there October 20 as a private with Battery C, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to corporal November 10, 1862, to sergeant February 13, 1864, to 2nd lieutenant July 25, 1864, and to 1st lieutenant June 20, 1865. Allegedly, he was among those who guarded the captive Jefferson Davis after the war and claimed that he struck up many a conversation with the former Confederate president.
He married Laura C. Bowman in 1868 and fathered Sarah A. (b. @1868), William F. (b. @1872), Frank J. (b. @1875), Sylvania (b. @1878), George Warren (b. 1880), Laura A. (B. @1886), and Thomson S. (b. @1888). After the war, he lived for six years in Goldsboro, York County, but the rest of his life in West Fairview Township. There he worked as a teacher, merchant, and politician, and it is where he died from "epithelioma [of the] face."
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