TODD EARNS MEMBERSHIP

JACKSON -- Nancy Todd of Jackson was recently accepted for membership in the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Julie Dent Grant, Tent No. 16, in St. Louis.

To be eligible for membership, a woman must prove lineal descent from an ancestor who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Todd met these requirements through direct descent from her great-great-grandfather, Peter Marshall, a private in Company F, 39th Illinois Regiment Volunteer Infantry.

Marshall mustered into service on Feb. 29, 1864. His regiment was engaged in the battle of Drewry's Bluff in Virginia in May 1864, in which 119 men were reported killed, wounded or missing.

The 39th also shared in the Oct. 13 battle of Deep Run in the charge made on the enemy's works seven miles from Richmond, Va. Marshall suffered a gunshot wound to the arm and was treated at a hospital in Hampton, Va., before being sent home on a furlough. He returned to service and was mustered out with his regiment at the end of the war.