{⋆★⋆} BG Stovall, Marcellus A.

Marcellus Augustus Stovall​

Born: September 18, 1818

Birth Place: Sparta, Georgia

Father: Pleasant Augustus Stovall 1793 – 1868

(Buried: Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

Mother: Louisa Roper Lucas 1800 – 1827

(Buried: Sparta Cemetery, Sparta, Georgia)​

1st​ Wife: Sarah Galphin McKinnie 1824 – 1872

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

2nd​ Wife: Courtenay Augusta "Gussie" Peck 1851 – 1949

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

Children:

Henry Lucas Stovall 1843 - 1863​

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

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Anna McKinne Stovall Hardwick 1845 – 1933​

(Buried: Summerville Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

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Louisa Pleasant Stovall 1846 - 1861​

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

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Anne "Anna" Grafflin Stovall 1875 – 1960​

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Marcellus Augustus Stovall Jr. 1877 - 1906​

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Augusta, Georgia)​

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Marshall C. Stovall 1879 – 1879​

Education:

Attended Wesleyan Academy​

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1836 – 1837: Attended West Point Military Academy​

Occupation:

1835 – 1837: Served in the Seminole War, rising to Private​

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1839: Toured Europe​

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Merchant in the State of Georgia​

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Captain of Georgia State Militia Artillery​

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Merchant in Rome, Georgia​

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Captain in Cherokee Artillery Militia​

Civil War Career:

1861: Colonel of 2nd​ Artillery Regiment of Georgia Forces​

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1861 – 1863: Lt. Colonel of 3rd​ Georgia Battalion​

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Participated in the Trans – Mississippi Department​

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1862: Participated in the Kentucky Campaign​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Stones River​

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1863 – 1865: Brigadier General in Confederate Army, Infantry​

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1863: Participated in the Siege of Jackson, Mississippi​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Chickamuga​

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1864: Participated in the Atlanta Campaign​

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1864: Participated in the Franklin – Nashville Campaign​

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1865: Surrendered his command in North Carolina​

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1865: Paroled in North Carolina by the Union Army​

Occupation after War:

Cotton Broker in Augusta, Georgia​

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Merchant of Farming Supplies in Augusta, Georgia

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Organizer & Manager of Georgia Chemical Works​

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City Alderman for Augusta, Georgia​

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Police Commissioner for Augusta, Georgia​

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Active in Confederate Survivors Association​

Died: August 4, 1895

Place of Death: Augusta, Georgia

Cause of Death: Valvular Heart Disease

Age at time of Death: 76 years old

Burial Place: Magnolia Cemetery Augusta, Georgia

 

[Pollaco]

He only studied at West Point for one year before dropping out due to ill health, does anyone know what was the exact reason?

 

[Pollaco]

Several sources state that his promotion to brigadier was on January 20, 1863.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday (September 18th) week to Brig. Marcellus A. Stovall! Salutes remembering General Stovall on his birthday week.

 

[John Wolf Smith]

In that new letter it says that he was a major general so I can not find information to suport this.

 

[Luke Freet]

In that new letter it says that he was a major general so I can not find information to suport this.

I think Bruce Allarice stated something about how a lot of local papers talking about certain veteran officers will often inflate their ranks in articles and obituaries. See this a lot in some Colonels who became "the youngest general in the confederacy" despite them never making such rank or being nominated by Confederate Congress.

 

[Luke Freet]

Stovall had fought in command of a battalion at Murfreesboro, before being given the rank of Brigadier and command of Preston's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division. This command he led at Chickamauga, taking part in the flank attack of September 20th. After this, he was given command of Seth Barton's Brigade of Georgians from Stevenson's recently exchanged division. This unit served under A. P. Stewart and fought at Reseca, New Hope Church, and Jonesboro, and then the Franklin Nashville Campaign. After this, he was rarely in command (he was not present for the July battles around Atlanta).

 

[John Wolf Smith]

Stovall had fought in command of a battalion at Murfreesboro, before being given the rank of Brigadier and command of Preston's Brigade, Breckinridge's Division. This command he led at Chickamauga, taking part in the flank attack of September 20th. After this, he was given command of Seth Barton's Brigade of Georgians from Stevenson's recently exchanged division. This unit served under A. P. Stewart and fought at Reseca, New Hope Church, and Jonesboro, and then the Franklin Nashville Campaign. After this, he was rarely in command (he was not present for the July battles around Atlanta).

He was with Johnston in 1865 so he could have taken Clayton's Division for a time when Clayton resigned due to his health so it could have acting Major general.

 

[Norman Dasinger Jr]

Look up his sister Cecilia
She and Sherman were friends -
Sherman tried to visit her in 1864 while his soldiers were in Cartersville, GA

 

[Norman Dasinger Jr]

His troops were in the cemetery at the Battle of New Hope Church, GA

 

[Luke Freet]

His troops were in the cemetery at the Battle of New Hope Church, GA

if i recall correctly, the men did not dig entrenchments on this part of the field, and just hunkered down behind headstones.

 

[ErnieMac]

His eldest son, Henry Lucas Stovall was Sergeant-Major of the 3rd Georgia Infantry Battalion. He contracted typhoid fever in camp at Shelbyville TN and died at a hospital in Rome GA on March 31, 1863.

 

[Pollaco]

In that new letter it says that he was a major general so I can not find information to suport this.

Likewise, I can find no reference to any promotion to the rank of major general.

 

[Pollaco]

Before becoming a Colonel of the 2nd Georgia Artillery he was a captain in the Cherokee Artillery.