He was assigned to B Co, 6th NH Infantry Regiment. He was killed in action on 29 AUG 1862 during the Battle of Second Manassas, Virginia,
From History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment in the War for the Union
By Lyman Jackman,, Page 91
"Firing to the End. Corporal M.W. Preston of Company B, was wounded in the thigh, the ball cutting an artery. He knew that he must die, but he kept on loading and firing. Corporal Talbot tied a handkerchief about the limb so as to stop the flow of blood somewhat, but as the enemy had flanked our left, Talbot was obliged to leave the wounded man as he was requested by him to do so, and the last the boys saw of the plucky Preston, he was firing his last charge at the advancing foe."
From History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment in the War for the Union
By Lyman Jackman,, Page 91
"Firing to the End. Corporal M.W. Preston of Company B, was wounded in the thigh, the ball cutting an artery. He knew that he must die, but he kept on loading and firing. Corporal Talbot tied a handkerchief about the limb so as to stop the flow of blood somewhat, but as the enemy had flanked our left, Talbot was obliged to leave the wounded man as he was requested by him to do so, and the last the boys saw of the plucky Preston, he was firing his last charge at the advancing foe."
He was assigned to B Co, 6th NH Infantry Regiment. He was killed in action on 29 AUG 1862 during the Battle of Second Manassas, Virginia,
From History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment in the War for the Union
By Lyman Jackman,, Page 91
"Firing to the End. Corporal M.W. Preston of Company B, was wounded in the thigh, the ball cutting an artery. He knew that he must die, but he kept on loading and firing. Corporal Talbot tied a handkerchief about the limb so as to stop the flow of blood somewhat, but as the enemy had flanked our left, Talbot was obliged to leave the wounded man as he was requested by him to do so, and the last the boys saw of the plucky Preston, he was firing his last charge at the advancing foe."
From History of the Sixth New Hampshire Regiment in the War for the Union
By Lyman Jackman,, Page 91
"Firing to the End. Corporal M.W. Preston of Company B, was wounded in the thigh, the ball cutting an artery. He knew that he must die, but he kept on loading and firing. Corporal Talbot tied a handkerchief about the limb so as to stop the flow of blood somewhat, but as the enemy had flanked our left, Talbot was obliged to leave the wounded man as he was requested by him to do so, and the last the boys saw of the plucky Preston, he was firing his last charge at the advancing foe."
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