J.L. Markle

Federal (USV)

Captain

John L. Markle

(1835 - 1896)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

He helped recruit and organize a Company and enrolled as their Captain - of Company F, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry - on 22 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He led Company F on the Maryland Campaign of 1862. His brother Joseph, 2nd Lieutenant in the 28th Pennsylvania Infantry, was killed at Antietam on 17 September 1862 ...

After the Lieutenant was killed, John placed his brother's body in a coffin made from a pew taken from the Dunkard Church.

The rest of the War

He was in action at Frederickburg, VA in December 1862 but resigned for health reasons, and was discharged on 23 September 1863.

References & notes

Service information and his picture from Porter1, with details from Bates2. The quote above from Westmoreland History (Winter 2015) [pdf], the journal of the Westmoreland (PA) County Historical Society. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

1835; Westmoreland County, PA

Death

09/09/1896; Los Angeles, CA; burial in Mill Grove (Markle) Cemetery, South Huntingdon, PA

Notes

1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 448 - 492 [AotW citation 13585]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 13601]

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