DOB:  January 12, 1837 DOD:  June 4, 1903 Age at Enlistment: 24 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  2nd Lieutenant Rank at Discharge:  1st Lieutenant Casualty:  None with the 1st TN Comments:  William was born and raised in Williamson County.  He first appears on the 1850 Census living with his family in District 9 of Williamson County (the city of Franklin and its immediate area).  Nothing as changed by the 1860 Census except William is working as a lawyer.  Just before the war he had graduated from the University of Nashville with a law degree.  He was elected 2nd Lieutenant at the company’s formation and was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on January 1, 1862 after Lieutenant House was promoted to Captain.  His enlistment expired in May 1862 and he chose to muster out.  In October of 1862, he was given a commission as lieutenant in Forrest’s Cavalry according to his Old Soldier's Home Application.  He states in his United Confederate Veteran application that he was in Starnes’ Brigade and eventually Hindeman’s Scouts.  He states he was wounded three times at Parker’s Crossroads and Dover, TN.  When the war ended he taught school and by 1880 he was a clerk for the Naval Department and later the law department of the General Land Office in Washington D.C.  He never married or had children.  He applied to Old Soldiers Home in 1894 but is listed as suspended in 1895.  He died at his home near Beechville, his obituary states he had been in feeble health for some time.

Left:  Portrait of William in later life, courtesy of the Williamson County Heritage Foundation Right:  William Marshall’s obituary