Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Qtr Master Serg
"A" Co. MS 8th Infantry

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8th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry

8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Enterprize, Mississippi, during the spring of 1861. Many of its members were from Jones, Wilkinson, and Clarke counties. The unit served in Florida and Mississippi, then was assigned to General J.K. Jackson's, Gist's, and Lowry's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It participated in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. This regiment lost forty-seven percent of the 282 at Murfreesboro and twenty-three percent of the 375 at Chickamauga. In December, 1863, it totalled 287 men and 169 arms. Its casualties at the Battle of Atlanta were 13 killed, 71 wounded, and 3 missing, and few surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonels G.C. Chandler, Guilford G. Flynt, and John C. Wilkinson; Lieutenant Colonels James T. Gates, Aden McNeill, and John F. Smith; and Majors Andrew E. Moody, George F. Peek, and William Watkins.
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M. T. Martin, age 18, Private, Capt. William Watkins' Co., 8th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enrolled June 1, 1861 at Raleigh by E. H. Gasque having traveled 72/54 miles to rendezvous, recorded as Musician on the October 1, 1861 muster roll, transferred to Field and Staff as Quarter Master Sergeant, May 20, 1862, recorded on the March & April, 1863 muster roll as on detached duty in Miss. by order Capt. Prince, A. Q. M., paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April, 1865

* This company subsequently became Company A, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi