Papers, 1862-1883.

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 38th (1861-1865)

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Martyn, John L.

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John L. Martyn was born in Washington County, Indiana, in 1843. He enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 as a private in the Thirty-Eighth Indiana Infantry. Martyn rose in the ranks from a corporal to sergeant major to captain of his regiment. The Thirty-Eighth Indiana Infantry fought throughout Kentucky and Tennessee and joined General Sherman on his March to the Sea. After the war he was mustered out of the Army in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1865. He married his wife Sarah (McBride?) in 1868 and th...