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GREAT-GRANDFATHER
JOHN ALEXANDER MARTIN
LEADER OF THE EIGHTH KANSAS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
by
Ralph David Martin
English U N
Dr. Swanson
Spring, 1984
John Alexander Martin was born March 10, 1839, in
said:
The states were responsible for raising troops for the Union
for Federal service. Creating these regiments was the job of the
people from his town.<4> This was the case with Governor
Crawford of K a n s a s :
The Eighth Kansas was organized in August of 1861 for duty on the
Regular Army.
At this point they also received guns and uniforms from the
Rosecrans did not believe the report and had the troops
inspected.
all of the Eighth arrived. While some other regiments barely had
The regiments continued north with only one wagon each, and each
man taking only the clothes he had o n . Their group was going to
ordered not to attack. The next day the regiment entered the
main rebel force had already gone south, and the only thing
Nashville was a large supply depot for the Union army. Also
The Eighth was at Nashville for six m o n t h s , and in that time they
role, and give bonds as a show of their pledge. The Eighth took
the oaths from all citizens over eighteen, except for two hundred
rebels. They went into the woods to block the rebel advance.
one third of all wounded men died. The regiment was badly
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The ground was strewn with the dead and wounded, and
almost every foot of the shot-torn field was red with
the crimson of loyal b l o o d . . .General Hood ( C o n f e d e r a t e )
was severly wounded directly in front of the Eighth
Kansas and had his leg amputated on the field. <17>
Later when the regiment past though here Colonel Martin counted
over thirty shots in a tree trunk smaller than a man. The Union
city lies in a valley and the rebels held the high ground
and his forces arrived on October 23rd, and General Sherman and
Eighth Kansas was ordered to take Orchard Knob. From here they
The Eighth and some other regiments raced to the top of the
train most of the way, and there arrival at Atchison was a great
from the banks of the Cattahoochie river, and Peach Tree Creek as
Although the war was over, the Eighth Kansas was ordered to San
gold sword. At age twenty-six the president made him the second
administrat ion.
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<4> Bruce Catton, Reflect ions on the Civil War (New York:
Berkley Books, 1982), pp. 49-50.
<8> Martin , p . 11 .
<11> Catton » P - 5 3 .
<12> Martin » p . 1 8 .
<13> Catton » p . 5 4 .
<14> Martin » p . 2 5 .
<15> Martin » P • 2 8 .
<16> Martin » p . 4 5 .
<17> Martin » P - 4 5 .
<18> Martin » p . 6 4 .
<19> Martin » p . 7 1 .
<20> Catton » P « 4 3 .
<21> Martin . P • 8 9 .
<22> Malone » p . 3 4 3 .
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