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George Marion, Jr. (Nov 24 1860 – Feb 4 1930) + 1) Mittie Dowling Freeman (Jul 8 1862 - >1910). See 1900 and 1910 and death certificate and gravestone
+ 2) Lizzie Hart (? - > Feb 1930). See 1920.

Census of 1850: erroneously identified as "Maria Main", age 12, in family of John G. Main (Barnwell County, SC)
Census of 1840 shows John G. Main and a female (age >= 20 & <30) with two boys younger than age 5, and no other children.
Census of 1860 show Marion Main & family listed after John G. Main's family (no "Maria", but other siblings still at home).

Civil War Service:
1) enlisted at Cole's Island, SC (Apr 12 1862). See 1825 Mills Atlas map excerpt for the location of a fort on Cole's Island (through Stono Inlet between Kiawah Island and Folly Island).
2) Served in SC 1st Regiment, Company E (Hagood's Infantry Regiment [after reorganization])
3) Wounded at Sharpsburg, MD (Battle of Antietam), Sep 17 1862
4) Died of pyemia / sepsis October 9, 1862 (Danville, VA: General Hospital #28 (aka Danville Railroad Hospital)

SC Archives (see their record) says:
1) enlisted Dec 9, 1861 (Capt. Sander's Co., 17th SC Infantry)
2) enlisted at Cole's Island, SC (Apr 12, 1862); rank= private
3) Served in SC 1st Regiment (Hagood's), Co. F 4, 2nd Co. E
4) Wounded at Manassas, Aug 29/30, 1862
5) Admitted to Danville Hospital Sep 10, 1862. Transferred from 17th SC Infantry.
6) Died at Danville, VA Oct 9, 1862 of blood sepsis (pyemia)

South Carolina troops in Confederate service: Vol. 1 (By the Historical Commission of South Carolina, Alexander Samuel Salley):
Quoted on p. 587: James R. Hagood says (Memoirs): "Private M. M. Main, Barnwell S.C. Died of Pneumonia, Jany 2nd 1863" , but the records indicate pyemia, which was very likely after being wounded.

"Reminiscences of a Private", by Frank M. Mixson, Company "E," 1st S. C. Vols. (Hagood's). Columbia State Co. 1910 130 pgs. Copies of this book may be found in the University of Texas Library and the Library of Congress.

See pp 350-383 microfilm roll 45 for 1st Hagood's Companies E and F. P 352 shows Cole's Island as station of the Company.

1st Regiment Volunteers completed its organization at Barnwell, South Carolina, in December 1860, and entered Confederate service in April, 1861. Its companies were raised in Charleston and the counties of
Orangeburg, Lancaster, Barnwell, Greenville, Colleton, and Richland. The regiment served in the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, then moved to Virginia and brigaded under Generals Jenkins and Bratton. It fought at South Mountain, Sharpsburg, and Fredericksburg, and later served under Longstreet at Suffolk and D.H. Hill in North Carolina. Again it was with Longstreet, but the unit did not take part in the conflict at Chickamauga. After fighting in the Knoxville operations the unit participated in the battles at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, the Petersburg siege, and the Appomattox Campaign. It reported 16 casualties at South Mountain, 40 at Sharpsburg, 1 at Fredericksburg, and 45 at Wauhatchie. Of the 169 engaged at Spotsylvania, thirteen percent were disabled, and from June 13 to December 31, 1864, there were 17 killed, 89 wounded, and 17 missing. It surrendered 21 officers and 201 men. The field officers were Colonels W.H. Duncan, Thomas J. Glover, James R. Hagood, Johnson Hagood, and Franklin W. Kilpatrick; Lieutenant Colonels Benjamin B. Kirkland and Daniel Livingston; and Majors George M. Grimes and Watson A. O'Cain. -- reference

Marion Main died in General Hospital # 28, which was also called Danville Railroad hospital or Railroad Shops Hospital. It was formerly a shop building in the railroad repair yards of the Richmond and Danville Rail Roads. It was a single-storied, brick building which had several natural springs nearby. It was opened 10 July 1862. It was a surgical hospital with 416 beds. Dr. Abraham Schultz Miller was surgeon-in-charge. Location: Manchester, Virginia, on the James River, just east of Richmond and Petersburg Rail Road bridge. Present site just east of south end of Manchester Bridge. -- (from Confederate Military Hospitals in Richmond by Robert W. Wait, Jr., Official Publication #22 Richmond Civil War Centennial committee, Richmond, Virginia 1964.)

For written accounts, also see:
Richmond Enquirer, 9/30/1862: (tabular report of sick & wounded soldiers in the hospitals in Richmond).

National Archives, RG 109, Ch. IV, 8/1/1862: (order from F. Sorrel, re-designating existing hospitals into General Hospitals with numbers).