John Martin, 50 year old Farmer, Private, Company H, 1st Missouri Cavalry, enlisted April 14, 1862 at Des Arc/Springfield, Arkansas for one year, recorded as "present, sick" at the end of April, 1863, recorded June 30 as "sick in hospital," the muster roll for the period July & August, records him as having died July 1, captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863, paroled in the City Hospital, Vicksburg, July 13, 1864, signs with his mark an 'X', attested by Edw? D. Lighed?, Act. Adj. 27th La CSA

His companies Historic muster roll contains this intelligence, born in Tennessee, resident of New Market, Platte County, was at Iuka, Corinth, Baker's Creekl, Big Black, & died, July 1,1863 of sickness during the siege of Vicksburg

M322: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri

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His name is not included on any list, I am aware of, of those buried in the Cedar Hill Cemetery, Soldiers Rest, Vicksburg City Cemetery. See the National Park listing at:

http://www.nps.gov/vick/historyculture/confederate-interments-m.htmch

I checked the list of unknowns but found no one matching, date of death, organization, etc. which could be him. Nor on those buried at Jackson.

It is my understanding that a Unpon Colonel, after the surrender of July 4, 1863, re-interred all the Confederate dead in the Vicksburg area in the City Cemetery. He provided the ladies of Vicksburg, a listing of some 3000 Confederate soldiers buried therein. I would believe that he would be been buried in the cemetery immediately after he died in hospital.

Cyprus head boards were originally provided and graves numbered. Over the years these boards disintegrated. Additionally, copies of the list of dead were lost.

Sometime in the 1970s, VA Confederate tombstones were procured and laid down in sections by state of service for the 2000 men of whom a list had been found.

Later, in 1997, Jeff Giambrone, working with Gordon Cotton at the Old Court House Museum in Vicksburg, found in a dusty old volume, a list of about 77 men, mostly those from East Tennessee. We procured VA stones for these men and placed them in July, 1998, in two rows behind the original 2000.

I place his date of death as sometime after July 13. The recording on his companies muster rolls being after the fact, and at a time when they were well out of the area.