MARSHALL
MARSHALL
of Manassas and Antietam, the skirmish at Shep-
ardstown, andthe march to Fahuouth, Va., Octo-
ber to November, 1862. He \va.s severely wounded
at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862 ; and for service in
that battle was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, Dec.
13, 1802. He was mustered out of the volunteer
service, May 23, 1863 ; and served as mustering
and disbursing officer at Rochester, N.Y., from
May, 1863, to January, 1864. He re-entered the
volunteer service as colonel of volunteers and was
assigned to the 14th New York Heavy Artillery,
Jan. 4, 1864, commanded the provisional brigade
made up of dismounted cavalry and heavy artillery
in the 4th division, 9tli corps. Grant's army, in
the campaign against Richmond, and participated
in the battles of the "Wilderness, Spottsylvania,
Tolopotomy, and in command of the provisional
brigade in the 1st division, 9th corps, at Cold
Harbor. He commanded the 2d brigade of
Ledlie's division at the battle of the Petersburg
Crater, June 17-18, 1864, where he greatly dis-
tinguished himself and was severely wounded.
He was present at the siege of Petersburg, July
8-30, 1864, led in the main assault, July 30, and
was captured after holding the crater nearly all
day. He was brevetted colonel, July 30, 1864, for
gallant and meritorious services at Petersburg,
succeeding the explosion of the mines ; was a
prisoner of war from July, 1864, to April, 1865, and
commanded a brigade in the defence of Wash-
ington, D.C., May to July, 1865. He was brevet-
ted brigadier-general of volunteers, and briga-
dier-general, U.S.A. for gallant and meritorious
services during the war, March 13, 1865. He was
mustered out of the volunteer service a second
time, Aug. 16, 1865 ; served on recruiting duty
from September, 1865, to March, 1866; was pro-
moted major of the 5th infantry, June 12, 1865, and
commanded Fort Union, N.M., 1866-67. He was
retired with the rank of colonel, Sept. 11, 1867.
See " Battle of the Petersburg Crater" by Maj.
W. H. Powell, U.S.A., in " Battles and Leaders of
the Civil War," Vol. IV. pages 545 et aeq. He died
in Catiatidaigua, N.Y., Aug. 8, 1883.
MARSHALL, Humphrey, senator, was born in Westmoreland county, Va., in 1756 ; son of John (1732-1805) and Jane (Guesenbury) Mar- shall, and a descendant, through John of the Forest and Thomas, of John Marshall, a captain of English cavalry who settled in Jamestown, Va., in 1650. He was sent to live with his uncle, Col. Thomas Marshall, at " The Oaks " in Fauquier county, and studied under Scotch tutors, with his cousins. At the outbreak of the Revolution he joined the Continental army and was made captain in the Virginia cavalry in 1778. He re- moved to Kentucky in 1780, purchased 4000 acres of land near Lexington, and visited " The Oaks " in 1784, where he was married to his cousin Mary,
daughter of Col. Thomas Mai-shall. He returned
to Kentucky and studied law. He was a member
of the Federalist party, and was opposed to General
Wilkinson's scheme to separate Kentucky from
Virginia. In 1787 he was a delegate to the Dan-
ville convention to consider the question of sepa>
ration, and was largely instrumental in defeating
the measure and in exposing the project for an
alliance with Spain upon the establishment of
the independence of Kentucky. He was a dele-
gate to the Virginia convention that ratified the
constitution of the United States, and was a
representative in the Kentucky legislature from
Woodford county in 1793, where lie opposed the
enlistment of troops in Kentucky under Gen.
George Rogers Clark. He characterised the move-
ment an intrigue by the French minister Genet,
to entrap Kentucky into an alliance against Spain.
He was a U.S. senator, 1795-1801, having been
elected as successor to John Edwards, whose
term expired, Marcli 31, 1795, and he voted for
the conditional ratification of the Jay treaty
with Great Britain and opiX)sed alliance with
any foreign power. He was instrumental in
the exposure and overthrow of the plot laid by
Burr and his coadjutors in 1806, and also caused
the resignation of Judge Sebastian, a paid pen-
sioner of Spain, from the bench of the court of
appeals. He was a representative in the state
legislature from Franklin county, 1807-09, and
had a dispute with Henry Clay on the latter's
recommendation that the members of the house
wear clothes of domestic manufacture. This
resulted in a duel in which Mr. Clay was slightly
wounded. Mr. Marshall again represented Frank-
lin county in the state legislature, 1823. He is
the author of: History of Kentucky (1812, rev.
ed., 2 vols., 1824), the first history of the state
written. He died in Frankfort, Ky., July 1, 1841.
MARSHALL, Humphrey, soldier, was born
in Frankfort, Ky., Jan. 13, 1812 ; son of John Jay
and Anna Reed (Birney) Marshall. He was
graduated from the U.S. Military academy in
1832, and was promoted brevet 3d lieutenant of
mounted rangers, July 1, 1832, and brevet 2d
lieutenant of 1st dragoons, March 4, 1833. He
was married, Jan. 23, 1833, to Frances E., daugh-
ter of Dr. Charles McAllister of Franklin, Tenn.
He served on the Black Hawk expedition in 1832,
and resigned his commission, April 30. 1833. He
was admitted to the bar in 1833 and practised at
Frankfort, 1833-34, and at Louisville, 1834-46.
He was a captain in the state militia, 1836-38,
major, 1838-41, and lieutenant-colonel, 1841-46,
and u|x)ji the outbreak of the war w^ith Mexico he
raised the first regiment of Kentucky cavalry
and was commissioned its colonel. June 9, 1846,
and was engaged in the battle of Buena Vista, Feb.
22-23, 1847. He returned to Louisville, removed
