He also has a memorial in Cedar Hill #25107493 where only his headstone is located.∼James K.P. Martin known as "Polky" by his loved ones left his home in Bellefonte, Jackson County, Alabama in May 1862 to join the Confederate States Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to letters from his father Daniel Martin, to his half-sister in Texas, he enlisted in Morton's (Tennessee) Light Artillery Battery [*] just before Forrest's Expedition into west Tennessee. He was wounded by a minie ball in the kneecap at the Battle of Parker's Cross Roads on December 31, 1862 in Henderson County, Tennessee.
[*]: I've yet to locate any of his military records under any spelling variation.
According to the aforementioned letters from his father, a woman of color took him into her cabin and nursed him as best she could for 4 days until Union troops found him and dragged him out into the snow outside her cabin with nothing but a blanket on him.
She allegedly begged them to let her keep the young man in her cabin but she was ignored. After he had laid out in the cold snow for about 4 hours, the woman finally got him back into her bed where he died presumably from the wound and exposure on January 4, 1863. He was only 18 years 2 months old.
[*]: I've yet to locate any of his military records under any spelling variation.
According to the aforementioned letters from his father, a woman of color took him into her cabin and nursed him as best she could for 4 days until Union troops found him and dragged him out into the snow outside her cabin with nothing but a blanket on him.
She allegedly begged them to let her keep the young man in her cabin but she was ignored. After he had laid out in the cold snow for about 4 hours, the woman finally got him back into her bed where he died presumably from the wound and exposure on January 4, 1863. He was only 18 years 2 months old.
He also has a memorial in Cedar Hill #25107493 where only his headstone is located.∼James K.P. Martin known as "Polky" by his loved ones left his home in Bellefonte, Jackson County, Alabama in May 1862 to join the Confederate States Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to letters from his father Daniel Martin, to his half-sister in Texas, he enlisted in Morton's (Tennessee) Light Artillery Battery [*] just before Forrest's Expedition into west Tennessee. He was wounded by a minie ball in the kneecap at the Battle of Parker's Cross Roads on December 31, 1862 in Henderson County, Tennessee.
[*]: I've yet to locate any of his military records under any spelling variation.
According to the aforementioned letters from his father, a woman of color took him into her cabin and nursed him as best she could for 4 days until Union troops found him and dragged him out into the snow outside her cabin with nothing but a blanket on him.
She allegedly begged them to let her keep the young man in her cabin but she was ignored. After he had laid out in the cold snow for about 4 hours, the woman finally got him back into her bed where he died presumably from the wound and exposure on January 4, 1863. He was only 18 years 2 months old.
[*]: I've yet to locate any of his military records under any spelling variation.
According to the aforementioned letters from his father, a woman of color took him into her cabin and nursed him as best she could for 4 days until Union troops found him and dragged him out into the snow outside her cabin with nothing but a blanket on him.
She allegedly begged them to let her keep the young man in her cabin but she was ignored. After he had laid out in the cold snow for about 4 hours, the woman finally got him back into her bed where he died presumably from the wound and exposure on January 4, 1863. He was only 18 years 2 months old.
Gravesite Details
Remains located in Bellefonte Cemetery, but his headstone was moved to Cedar Hill Cemetery due to the fear of vandalism.
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