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Martin C Jessee


Biography
Born 10/07/1828
Birth Location Russell Co.
Died 02/13/1920
Death Location Russell Co., VA
Father George Jessee
Mother Elizabeth Counts
Married 11/15/1851
Spouse Mary Catherine Goodwin
Military Units
29th Infantry
Ferguson's Battalion
CSR, Pension, and Miscellaneous Images
29th Infantry
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Misc
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Miscellaneous Information:

Filed pension: 1908, Russell County
Appears on 1909 pension list: Under act of 1917
Appears on pension applications for: John C. Jessee, 1904. Able L. Smith widow, 1917.

Newspaper mention:
Lebanon News, 5/29/1908, 4/12/1918, 2/28/1920

Notes: Cited in Russell County Death Records, Volume 1.

Obituary online

Military Information:

Compiled Service Record
Card 1
Private, Company A, 29th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 2 Qr., 1864

Date of issue: June 8, 1864
Signature: By x

Card 2

Appears on a muster roll for June 30 to Oct. 30, 1862 (Dated Nov. 30, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: Aug. 5, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Lt. J. T. Jessee
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Clark
To what time: June 30

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Recruit Captured & paroled by the enemy

Card 3

Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: April 1st, 1862
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: Capt. Jessee
Period: 2 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. V. C. Huff
To what time: Oct. 30, 1862

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Absent from 15 Nov. 1862

Card 4

Appears on a muster roll for Jany & Feby, 1863 (Dated Mch. 9, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: Aug. 5
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: Capt. Jessee
Period: 2 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. V. C. Huff
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Rejoined 29 Jany having captured by the enemy has bounty due & commutation

Card 5

Appears on a muster roll for Mch. & April, 1863 (Not dated)

Re-Enlisted:
When: April 1, 1862
Where: Russell Co., Va
By whom: Capt. Jessee
Period: 2 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Capt. Huff
To what time: Feby 28, 1863

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 6

Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1863 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When:
Where:
By whom:
Period:

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks: Rejoined after being ab. without leave 5 Nov. 63 & was restored to duty his excuse being satisfactory


Card 7

Appears on a muster roll for April 1, 1864, made under G. O. No. 27, A. & I. G. O., Rich'd, 1864.

Re-Enlisted:
When: Aug. 1, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Capt. Dickenson
Period: 3

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 8

Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1864 (Dated Dec. 31, 1864)

Enlisted:
When: Aug. 5, 1862
Where: near Russell Co., Va
By whom: Lt. Jessee
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Absent
Remarks: Ab. without leave since 14 Nov 64

Card 9

Appears on a Register of
Confederate States Hospital,
Petersburg, Va.,
containing a record of clothing and accoutrements.

Date: Mch. 30, 1863
When delivered: Apl. 16
Remarks: Duty

Card 10

Appears on a Register of
Episcopal Church Hospital,
Williamsburg, Va.

Complaint: Rheumatism
Admitted: Apl. 8, 1863
Duty: Apl. 12, 1863

Remarks: Transferred to Farmville

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