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William Warren Marple was a commanding officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He served as a captain in a regiment from Pennsylvania before being promoted and leading African American soldiers. He later moved to Washington state.
A letter he wrote to his brother Alfred Marple during the war survives.[1] The University of Washington Libraries have a photo of him with Susan M. Tracy Marple, a few other women, and a cat.[2] Imogen Cunningham photographed him with a young Marcia Tracy Marple. The photograph is held by the Smithsonian.[3]
He and his brother Albert's military service is noted here: The Marple Family in the American Civil War[4]
Civil War edit
He was captain of Company C of Warminster, Pennsylvania in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.[5] until he was promoted.[6] He served as a captain with the 104th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment. In 1865 he was breveted a brigadier general.[7][8] He mustered out honorably in 1866.[7]
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Personal life edit
He was married to Susan M. Marple.[9]
References edit
- ^ "Letter from William Warren Marple, Lt. Col. 34th USCT". www.marple.com.
- ^ "Colonel William Warren Marple and Susan M. Tracy Marple, with three women and a cat, probably between 1900 and 1910". digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu.
- ^ "Marcia Tracy Marple and William Warren Marple | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
- ^ "The Marple Family in the American Civil War". marplecivilwar.troosevelt1904.com.
- ^ Davis, William (November 2008). History of the 104th Pennsylvania Regime: From August 22nd, 1861 to September 30th 1864. ISBN 9781429016506.
- ^ Pennsylvania (1864). "Reports of the Heads of Departments to the Governor of Pennsylvania, in Pursuance of the Law for the Fiscal Year Ending".
- ^ a b Herringshaw, Thomas William (1914). "Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits".
- ^ Heitman, Francis Bernard (1890). "Historical Register of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to September 29, 1889".
- ^ "Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution". 1926.