Pvt. (USA), Richard Marlow

"Richard and Mary were married in 1839, their children Frederick and Emily were born in 1841 and 1844, respectively. The Mexican War began in 1846 and Richard volunteered to serve. That he left a wife and two small children to volunteer for service in the Army seems a bit strange. He was wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista but recovered from his wounds and returned home safely. Mary died in 1857 and some time after the onset of the Civil war, Richard once again enlisted in the Union Army. This time his luck ran out, he was killed at Vicksburg on 30 May 1863. His son Frederick also volunteered for the Union Army, was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant, and was promoted once later in the war. He survived, married, and moved to Northern California with his wife Elizabeth Robison and her family. His sister Emily married Calvin Marlow, a distant cousin, they stayed in Perry Co IL. Richard is memorialized on the monument to his regiment at Vicksburg and is assumed to be buried there."

• Source - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22887019/richard-marlow

Richard Marlow served in the US Army during the Mexican-American War as a Private in Company K, 2nd Illinois Infantry Regiment. He also served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as a Private in Company A, 31st Illinois Infantry Regiment. He entered service on 15 Aug 1861 and mustered in on 18 Sep 1861 in Cairo, Illinois. He died of pneumonia on 31 May 1863 near Vicksburg, Mississippi.

• Sources
  • Ancestry.com. Web: Illinois, Databases of Illinois Veterans Index, 1775-1995 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
  • Ancestry.com. U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.