Samuel Sackett Marchand

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Husband Samuel Sackett Marchand ^{1 2}

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           Born: 25 Sep 1825 - Uniontown, Fayette Co, PA 2
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           Died: 18 Feb 1863 - Libby Prison, Richmond, VA 2
         Buried:  - Fayette Co, PA

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         Father: Dr. Louis Marchand (1782-1857) 1 3
         Mother: Sarah Sackett (      -1870) 3 4

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Sackett Marchand

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He received an academic education, studied medicine with his father, attended the Cleveland Medical College, Cleveland, Ohio, and opened an office in Harrison City, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. In 1850 he removed to Jacksonville and practiced with his cousin, Dr. Benjamin Rush Marchand. One week after President Lincoln's proclamation calling for 75,000 men was issued, he was in Harrisburg with men enough for two companies. The one electing him captain was assigned to the Fourteenth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Colonel Johnston, commanding, Humphrey Carson, a veteran of the Mexican war, first lieutenant, Andrew Bovard, second lieutenant, Company I. This company was mustered out August 6, 1861, without having participated in any battles. Dr. Marchand returned home and resumed practice until one year later, when the call for nine months volunteers was made. Captain Marchand united with Thomas M. Bayne, of Allegheny, in raising a company, of which Bayne was elected captain, and Dr. Marchand first lieutenant, known as Company H, of the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth Pennsylvania Volunteers. The regiment was sent first to the defense of Washington, D. C., at Fort Saratoga, leaving there in September for Sharpsburg, where it was assigned to the Second Brigade, Second Division, First Corps, under General Ricketts. In the battle of Fredericksburg, Captain Marchand was severely wounded and left upon the field. He died from the effects of this wound in Libby prison, Richmond, Virginia. After the fall of Richmond his body was removed to the burial plot on the home farm.

1 Franklin Ellis, History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 627.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 361.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 358.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 397.