CSA Soldiers at Soldiers' Rest
Vicksburg, Mississippi

Not Forgotten

 

Photos by Bryan Skipworth

Marmaduke
Second Son of M and L
Shannon
Born
Sept 28, 1844
killed at Fort Blakeley
Mobile, in the last struggle
for Southern Independence.
April 6, 1865

At right, close-up of marker.

Marmaduke Shannon enlisted in the 4 Miss Cav, Co. C, on 1 Dec 1863 in Port Gibson, Miss., for the length of the war. He was 18 years old.

At the time of his enlistment, he was a student and a resident of Vicksburg, Warren Co., Miss., where he had been born.

On the company muster roll of 1 May 1864 to 30 Jun 1864, he was marked "Absent" because he was "detailed as a scout."

Record is at

www.fold3.com/image/271/64717090

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