 1840 - 1864 (24 years)
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| Name |
Martin Van Buren Pennock |
| Born |
1840 |
Michigan, USA  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
6 Jan 1864 |
Tecumseh, Michigan, USA |
- American Civil War
- Confined as a prisoner-of-war in Virginia, where he was "starved to a skeleton" and contacted typhoid fever. Was sent home to Michigan in 1863 where he died weeks later from the effects of his prisoner mistreatment.
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| Buried |
Brookside Cemetery, Tecumseh, Lenawee County, Michigan, USA |
| Person ID |
I22618 |
Family Tree |
| Last Modified |
4 Jul 2022 |
| Father |
Ira Pennock, b. 24 May 1810, Vermont, USA |
| Mother |
Mary Ann Niblack, b. 1815, New York, USA , d. 8 Mar 1895, Tecumseh, Michigan, USA (Age 80 years) |
| Family ID |
F11181 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Headstones |
 | Martin Pennock
Martin V.B. Pennock
Corp'l
Co. G 4th
Mich. Inf.
Captured
July 2, 1863
at Gettysburg, Pa
Died
Jan. 6, 1864
a victim of rebel cruelty
while a prisoner
Aged 23 yrs. |
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| Notes |
- Enlisted in Company G of the Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry on June 20, 1861, at Adrian, Michigan, for 3 years, at age 20. Served beside his brother Alonzo. Mustered June 20, 1861. Returned home to Tecumseh, Michigan, during May of 1863 to assist in recruiting with his Captain, David Marshall. Taken prisoner in the "Wheatfield" at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1863. Confined in the prisoner-of-war camp at at Belle Island, Richmond, Virginia, where he was "starved to a skeleton". Admitted to Hospital in Richmond on October 25, 1863, with typhoid fever. Paroled at City Point, Virginia on October 28, 1863, and sent to General Hospital, Annapolis, Maryland, where he arrived on October 29, 1863. Sent home December 25, 1863. Died from the effects of his prisoner mistreatment while at home in Tecumseh, Michigan, on January 6, 1864.
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