Marables in the Civil War
Wherever possible an individual is identified by indicating his or her line of descent from one of the three sons of Major George Marable who left issue: William, George or Benjamin. Uncertain or missing links are indicated with a question mark.)
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Detail from a Federal Civil War map of Charles City
Co. showing Sherwood Forest, the residence of
The general store and house were occupied by a granddaughter of Albert Warren Marable as late as 1973. Originally, the roadway ran between the store and the house, but the store was relocated across the road nearer to the house when State Route 5 (the John Tyler Memorial Highway) was widened to two lanes and paved (running through the original store's porch). The home of George Bernard Major (of Martha, George) and his wife, Elmora Catherine Griffith Marable (of George, Edward, George) is also marked, near the north edge of the detail.
[Abner Terry Marable of Halifax Co.,
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The legend has long been told, and accepted by
chroniclers , that Joseph G.
Marable of Chicasaw Co., MS (b. 1839,
of C. C. M., George, Matthew, William) and the 11th Mississippi Regiment, Co. H.,
was the last to carry the colors of the
This is now at best a matter of controversy. The publication of the Diary of Lt. William H. Peel 1863-1865 (Ellen Wilds, Pioneer Publishers, Carrolton, Mississippi, 2005) presents an almost contemporaneous account of the final surrender at Bryan's Barn of Peel and 12 men under his command who advanced to within 30 yards of the wall and then took shelter behind Brian's Barn. According to Peel they were captured with the battle flag of the 11th Mississippi Regiment, which was last carried by one of them, Pvt. George Kidd (of Co. C). The historical evidence (trumping family legend, no matter how widely accepted), thus, favors the view that the colors of the 11th were taken with the 13 men who surrendered behind Brian's Barn, not with Joseph, fallen at the wall. The Museum of the Confederacy, has removed the story of Joseph Marable from its display of the Flag and no longer names its final bearer. [Above: Imperishable Glory, painted by Mr. Dale Gallon, depicting the charge and the wounding of the colorbearer, was commissioned by the 11th Mississippi Memorial Association. ] |
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Entry in the Bible of Benjamin Marable of Sussex Co., Virginia, memorializing the death of his grandson, Benjamin B. Graves (b.1836, son of Martha Ann Marable (m. Crosher Graves), daughter of Benjamin, Hartwell, George), at the Battle of Gettysburg. [Right: James Richardson Marable of Williamson Co., TN (b. 1835) 4th Tennessee Cav., Co. F. (Son of Matthew, John, William).] |
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Ex-President
Tyler, and the Marable Store and residence. The country store was
probably established by Major Watkins
Marable
(b. 1818) or his son Albert Warren Marable (b. 1840).
11th
Mississippi at the end of the charge up Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg.
It is said that he picked up the fallen regimental battle flag and
carried it to the
wall next to Brian's Barn atop the ridge -- arguably the point of
furthest Confederate advance at Gettysburg. It is said that he was then wounded, falling across
the flag, so that after the battle federal forces found him with the
flag under him on the battlefield and captured both. He was imprisoned
at Fort Delaware from which he escaped, together with his cousin Warren
Reid. They crossed the Chesapeake Bay with the help of coal boat skipper
(others say he used a floating ladder) and rejoined his unit.
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". . . . While at Mulberry Island five of the members of the Guard volunteered to serve on board of the Patrick Henry during the engagement between the Merrimac and the Federal fleet in Hampton Roads: Robert E. Davis, Wm H. Lacy, Richard M. Binns, [and] Ed W. Marable under command of Lnc Corporal Jno. E. Major." (From the notes of John E. S. Major (George Bernard (Major), Martha (m. John Major), George; and Elmora (m. George Bernard Major), George, Edward, George) concerning the Charles City Southern Guards, Company K, 53rd Virginia Reg., Armistead's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Longstreet's Corps.)
