Peter Hynds Martin II (1825 - 1846)

Born 5 Jun 1825 in Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 21 Sep 1846 at age 21 in Monterey, Nuevo León, Mexico,

Biography

Peter Martin II served with the United States Army during the Mexican-American War
Service Started:
Unit(s): Tenth Legion, Capt William Blackmore's Company: First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteers.
Service Ended:

Peter was born on 5 June 1825 in Tennessee, USA. He was the son of Peter Hinds Martin I. and Jane (Bell) Martin.

Peter died at the age of 21 on 21 September 1846 in Monterey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Cause of death was Mexican War, Battle of Monterey.

Peter was buried after 21 September 1846 in Mexican War Memorial at Gallatin City Cemetery, Gallatin Sumner County Tennessee, USA findgrave.com.

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Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/225030446/peter-hynds-martin

Notes

NOTE 1

Death date 09/20/1846, Mexican War appears in Bell Family (Space:Smith, 2004)

JDS (Sneed-20).

NOTE 2

Cisco, Jay Guy, Historic Sumner County, Tennessee, with genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage and Douglass families and genealogical notes of other Sumner County families, Nashville, Tenn., Folk-Keelin Print. Co., 1909.

reproduced here.

The First Tennessee Regiment won distinction and gained the praise of the General commanding the American forces for the valor and dash displayed by it in its charge on the enemy's defenses at Monterey on September 21, 1846. This regiment was brigaded at Monterey with the Mississippi Regiment known as the Mississippi Rifles, and commanded by Colonel Jefferson Davis, and were in Quitman's Brigade.

General Zachary Taylor, commanding the army, in his dispatch to Washington in regard to this battle, said: "The Fourth Infantry and three regiments of volunteers were ordered to march at once upon the heavy battery, which was pouring a continuous fire from five pieces of cannon. The Mississippi and Tennessee troops, preceded by three companies of the Fourth, advanced against the works, while the Ohio Regiment, entered the town to the right. The advance of the Fourth was received by so destructive a charge that one-third of the officers and men were instantly killed or disabled. They were compelled to retire until reinforced. The Tennessee and Mississippi corps, under General Quitman, pushed onward, and with the aid of Captain Backus, whose men occupied the roof of a house in the rear of the redoubt, captured it in gallant style, taking five pieces of ordnance, a large quantity of ammunition and several Mexican officers and men prisoners."

In this charge the First Tennessee suffered heavily in killed and wounded and won for itself the name of the "Bloody First." Many noble Sumner countians gave up their lives in this charge at their country's behest, while others were maimed for life. Here Booker H. Dalton and John F. Ralphfile, of the Polk Guards, and, First Corporal Julius C. Elliott, Peter Hinds Martin, Edward Pryor, Benjamin Soper, Isaac Inman Elliott and Thomas Jones of the Tenth Legion were killed, and Lieutenant J. Cam. Allen, of that company, lost a leg. History states that there were one hundred and twenty American soldiers killed at the battle of Monterey. Eight of these were Sumner countains, so out of every fifteen killed in that battle, Sumner county mourned one dead son or six and two-thirds per cent of the slain in that engagement. Out of these three companies, forty-five men died of disease contracted in the service in the war with Mexico.

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of JDS_09_17_10.ged on 09 February 2011.