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Submitted: 5/29/23 • Approved: 6/1/23 • Last Updated: 6/4/23 • R572833-G0-S3
PRIVATE CSA
Company K 17th Alabama Infantry
Civil War Confederate
June 30, 1842 - February 2, 1912
John M. Martin enlisted as a Private, September 9, 1861 at Montgomery, Alabama. He was hospitalized in Mississippi June 1862. He reported to the regimental medical unit June 15, 1864, diagnosis was acute diarrhea. Captured December 15, 1864, at Nashville, he was imprisoned at Camp Douglas, Illinois.
He was born June 30, 1842 and died February 2, 1912 burial at Thorp Spring Cemetery in Texas.
Also listed as J. W. Martin.
Source: Illene D. Thompson and Wilbur E. Thompson, The Seventeenth Alabama Infantry: A Regimental History and Roster (Bowie, Maryland: Heritage Books Inc., 2001). pages 411-412.
Provided by Ronald Davis Bridges (Contributor #46931837)
Contributed on 5/29/23 by sixpakjak
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