Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Marsh ya shiga rundunar sojojin Union daga Randolph, New York, a watan Agustan 1861. Ya yi gwagwarmaya a yakin Fair Oaks
(aka Bakwai Pines), Gettysburg, da kuma Spotsylvania, kuma ya ji rauni a kowane lokaci. An tattara shi a watan Satumba na shekara ta 1864.