Daniel Marston
Daniel Marston was born around 1813 in Maine. He married Rosannah Dow, and they had at least three children: Helena, born around 1841; Mary, born around 1844; and Daniel, born around 1848. They lived in Phillips, Maine, and Marston worked as a farmer. By 1850, he owned $2,500 of real estate. He joined the Republican Party in the late 1850s and attended the Maine State Convention in 1857. By 1860, he was working as a merchant, and he owned $2,000 of real estate and $4,000 of personal property.
Marston enlisted in the Union army on September 22, 1861, and he mustered in as a private in Company D of the 9th Maine Infantry later that day. On August 9, 1862, he was promoted to captain of Company C of the 16th Maine Infantry. The regiment took part in the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Battle of Gettysburg, the Overland Campaign, and the siege of Petersburg. He was “accidentally wounded” in the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. He apparently lost an eye during the war, and he mustered out on December 22, 1864.
After the war, Phillips divided his time between La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Phillips, Maine. He worked as a grocer, and by 1870, he owned $6,000 of personal property. He retired sometime in the 1870s. He applied for a federal pension in March 1883 and eventually secured one. He died in Phillips on November 26, 1891.
Image: Daniel Marston (courtesy Maine State Archives Collection)
DATABASE CONTENT
| (1773) | Marston, Daniel | 1813 | 1891-11-26 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Captain
- Rank highest: Captain
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 8
- (3591) [writer] ~ Daniel Marston to Children, 25 January 1863
- (6091) [recipient] ~ Unknown to Daniel Marston, 1 January 1862
- (6092) [writer] ~ Daniel Marston to Unknown, 17 January 1863
- (6094) [recipient] ~ Sarah Sampson to Daniel Marston, 6 February 1864
- (6095) [recipient] ~ John C. Tuttle to Daniel Marston, 4 February 1864
- (6096) [writer] ~ Daniel Marston to Daughter, 23 April 186X
- (6135) [recipient] ~ Augustus B. Farnham to Daniel Marston, 5 August 1863
- (6136) [recipient] ~ Augustus B. Farnham to Daniel Marston, 29 July 1863
People - Records: 1
- (3248) Marston, Mary Abigail is the [child of] (1773) Marston, Daniel
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 2
Groups - Records: 1
- (3) [member/supporter] ~ Republican Party
SOURCES
1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; 1890 Veterans Census, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, available from Ancestry.com; Bangor Daily Whig and Courier, 27 June 1857; Green Bay Weekly Gazette, 9 December 1891.
