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Marshall Lefferts
Birth: 1-14-1821
Death: 7-3-1876
Biography
Colonel Marshall Lefferts was a career soldier, and member of New York's Seventh Regiment, based out of NYC. He was first elected major of the regiment in February 1851 and resigned from his position in 1864. According to a history book of the Seventh Regiment, Lefferts was a civil engineer by training. He married Mary Allen in 1845 and died suddenly in 1876 while traveling to Philadelphia with the regiment to take part in a Fourth of July parade.
Lefferts was likely part of a committee the Seventh Regiment sent to Washington DC in 1858. This committee was looking to secure additional arms for the regiment and was successful in this task thanks to William Henry Seward's assistance. According to a letter published in The Washington Union in October 1858, this committee consisted of (at the time) Lieutenant Colonel Marshall Lefferts, Captain Henry C. Shumway, Major Benjamin M. Nevers, Captain James Monroe, and Reverend Doctor Sullivan H. Weston.
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Colonel Marshall Lefferts was a career soldier, and member of New York's Seventh Regiment, based out of NYC. He was first elected major of the regiment in February 1851 and resigned from his position in 1864. According to a history book of the Seventh Regiment, Lefferts was a civil engineer by training. He married Mary Allen in 1845 and died suddenly in 1876 while traveling to Philadelphia with the regiment to take part in a Fourth of July parade.
Lefferts was likely part of a committee the Seventh Regiment sent to Washington DC in 1858. This committee was looking to secure additional arms for the regiment and was successful in this task thanks to William Henry Seward's assistance. According to a letter published in The Washington Union in October 1858, this committee consisted of (at the time) Lieutenant Colonel Marshall Lefferts, Captain Henry C. Shumway, Major Benjamin M. Nevers, Captain James Monroe, and Reverend Doctor Sullivan H. Weston.