John Martin was born around 1846.
John stood 5’6” with dark eyes, brown hair and a fair complexion and was a clerk possibly living in Pittsfield, Washtenaw County or Polkton, Ottawa County, Michigan, when he joined the 3rd Michigan.
Available Regimental records list two “John Martins,” both age 18 and both enlisted in the 3rd Michigan within a day of each other: John (1) in Unassigned at Pittsfield, Washtenaw County, on January 11, 1864, and mustered on January 12, but there is no further record. John (2) enlisted on January 10, 1864, in Company H at Grand Rapids for 3 years, crediting Pittsfield, Washtenaw County, and was mustered on January 11.
John (2) joined the Regiment on February 17 at Camp Bullock, Virginia and was probably wounded during the Wilderness and Spotsylvania campaigns. He was reported absent wounded when he was transferred to Company A, 5th Michigan Infantry upon consolidation of the 3rd and 5th Michigan Regiments on June 10, 1864. In July of 1864 Samuel Murray, formerly of Company H, 3rd Michigan, wrote to George Lemon, another former member of the company telling him that “John Martin has been home on furlough; he had a bad wound but is getting along finely. He was paid up to April 30th in Washington and also got the back bounty that we thought lost.” John remained absent until he was discharged May 22, 1865, at Columbian College hospital in Washington, D.C., on account of disability.
There is no further record. It is unknown what became of John (2). In August of 1865 he applied for and received a veteran’s pension (cert. no. 59,394).
The SUVCW graves registration lists him in Salem-Walker cemetery in Clinton County but that is most likely incorrect; the John Martin buried there was born in 1828.
There was a John H. Martin who was an honorary member of the Old 3rd Michigan Infantry Association.
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