Marsh, Jasper H.

MARSH, SAUNDERS

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Date: 11/26/2012 at 10:47:51

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa

UNION TOWNSHIP

Page 702-3

MARSH, JASPER H.--Born in Lee county, Iowa, March 10, 1844. He lived with his parents until he enlisted in the Union army. He enlisted in company F, Sixteenth regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, February 18, 1862. Very soon he was taken to camp in St. Louis, then went down the river, and as a raw recruit entered the battle of Pittsburg Landing; was in two battles at Corinth, the battle of Iuka, and was in the attack on Vicksburg and the siege and capture, then to Jackson, Meridian and Atlanta. He re-enlisted March 27, 1864, was taken prisoner at Atlanta, Georgia, July 22, 1864, and confined in Andersonville prison pen, where he remained, subject to untold inhumanities, till May 28, 1865. He entered the Federal lines at Jacksonville, Florida. He was mustered out on June 16, 1865. He married Miss Nancy S. Saunders, June 7, 1869, and the names of the children born to them are as follows: Martha B. (born March 29, 1872), Ethel E. (born September 6, 1878). His farm contains sixty acres, on section 21. He raises grain, corn, fruits of all kinds, horses, cattle and hogs. His father's name is I.L. Marsh; his mother's, Martha A. Marsh. The wife of our subject is the daughter of Aaron A. and Harriet Saunders, and was born August 22, 1852.