Titus Co., TX - Military - Marcus L Dale - PVT, CSA
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Marcus L Dale Pvt CSA

Marcus L Dale was born 17 Apr 1834 in Burke County NC. He moved with
his parents from Burke County NC to Cherokee County NC but then remained
in Cherokee County when his father John Henry Dale, his mother and 09
brothers and sisters moved, in a covered wagon (just prior to the Civil
War),
to Titus County TX. One sister died (probably either in NC or TN) during
the trip to Texas

Marcus married prior to 1860 in NC to Elizabeth (unknown maiden
name/unknown parents) They had one son born in NC and then the family
moved to Polk County TN prior to 1862. He joined the Confederate Army
at Benton TN on 01 May 1862 (for three years or the war) as a Private
and was assigned to Company “K”, 59th
Tennessee Infantry Regiment (also called - 1st (Eakin’s) Tennessee
Battalion: Cooke’s Regiment: 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment).
The 59th TN Inf. Reg. was organized in May 1862 and was mustered into
Confederate service on 30 Jun 1862. Upon being mustered into Confederate
service the Fifty-Ninth Tennessee Infantry was ordered to duty in the
Department of East Tennessee. The regiment served in that command until
late 1862. Transferred to Mississippi, the unit served in the Department of

Mississippi and East Louisiana and then in the Army of Vicksburg. The
regiment was captured when that City fell on 04 July 1863.
Subsequently exchanged and paroled, the unit returned to service in the
Department of East Tennessee. There it served as a mounted infantry
unit for the remainder of the War.

Marcus participated in 08 different Campaigns, Skirmish, Retreats,
Engagements, Battles, Siege and Assaults before the Surrender of Vicksburg.

He was captured “on the retreat from Big Black at Vicksburg MS on 17 May
1863.” His name appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War, captured by the Army

of the Tennessee, and sent to Memphis, Tenn on 25 May 1863. He was next
sent on 15 Jun 1863 from Camp Morton, Ind to Fort Delaware, Del; and from
there he was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland and then on to Fort Columbus,
New York arriving there on 25 Sep 1863. Marcus was transferred on 10 Feb
1865 to Coxes Landing, James River, Virginia and on 14 Feb 1865 he was
exchanged. He next appears on a Muster Roll of a detachment of paroled
and exchanged prisoners at Camp Lee, near Richmond, Va on 17 Feb 1865.

For Marcus the Civil War was over; he returned to his home in Eastern
Tennessee where his name appears as signature to Oath of Allegiance to the
United States, subscribed and sworn to at Chattanooga Tenn on 25 March
1865. Marcus remained in Polk County Tenn until about 1870. He next took
his wife and three sons and moved to Saline County (near Little Rock) in
Arkansas. He and his wife had two children born in AR , a daughter in 1872
and a son in 1874. We find Marcus L Dale in Saline County on the 1870
AR Census Index.
Both Marcus and his wife Elizabeth died near Little Rock AR after 1874.
Marcus L Dale is the brother of Pvts Albert Jerome Dale, Marshal Norman
Dale and Jefferson E Dale, CSA, all from Titus County TX and who were
members of Walkers “Greyhounds.”