Marshall Barnes was born in Wisconsin Territory before Wisconsin was admitted as a state. He was taken to Kansas Territory with his family, living in the now Colorado portion of the state. There he enlisted in the Union Army on 1 September 1864 in Denver, Colorado. He was a Private in Company L of the 3rd Colorado Cavalry, a 100-day unit. He mustered out on 31 December 1864. Despite being in the Civil War due to his location he did not fight Confederate soldiers, but instead Native Americans like the Sioux and the Arapaho Indians. After the war he moved directly to Mexico marrying a Mexican woman and living in the Sonora and Chihuahua states. While in Mexico he was in the business of mining, with his longest activity being a master mechanist and mechanical engineer for the Minas Prietas mine in Sonora. Once widowed he moved back to California in 1916 where he was an inmate at the Malibu Soldiers' Home. While at the Soldiers' Home in 1920 he wrote a letter stating that the Soldiers' Home was a splendid place for a man to live his declining years". Later, in 1921, he was discharged from the home and moved to Arizona where he was a resident for 2 months before passing away.
Bio Courtesy: Graves Registration Officer, 2024, Department of the Southwest, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Added to the National Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves Database of March 13, 2024.
Marshall Barnes was born in Wisconsin Territory before Wisconsin was admitted as a state. He was taken to Kansas Territory with his family, living in the now Colorado portion of the state. There he enlisted in the Union Army on 1 September 1864 in Denver, Colorado. He was a Private in Company L of the 3rd Colorado Cavalry, a 100-day unit. He mustered out on 31 December 1864. Despite being in the Civil War due to his location he did not fight Confederate soldiers, but instead Native Americans like the Sioux and the Arapaho Indians. After the war he moved directly to Mexico marrying a Mexican woman and living in the Sonora and Chihuahua states. While in Mexico he was in the business of mining, with his longest activity being a master mechanist and mechanical engineer for the Minas Prietas mine in Sonora. Once widowed he moved back to California in 1916 where he was an inmate at the Malibu Soldiers' Home. While at the Soldiers' Home in 1920 he wrote a letter stating that the Soldiers' Home was a splendid place for a man to live his declining years". Later, in 1921, he was discharged from the home and moved to Arizona where he was a resident for 2 months before passing away.
Bio Courtesy: Graves Registration Officer, 2024, Department of the Southwest, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.
Added to the National Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Graves Database of March 13, 2024.
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