Noah Marshall Carroll Was Born June 3, 1827 in Covington County, Alabama. He Was the Third

Noah Marshall Carroll was born June 3, 1827 in Covington County, Alabama. He was the third of nine children of Noah and Sarah Mancill Carroll. As was most Southerners of that time, he was a farmer. In 1853 Noah Marshall lost his wife, the former Christianna Stanfield, who died three months after giving birth to their third child. In 1858 he married Miss Martha Edwards. Martha died three months after the marriage. That same year his eight year old son, by his first wife, also died. By 1859 Noah had married Nancy Elizabeth Dunkin and they were living in Coffee County, Alabama. Nancy would bare him six girls and two boys.

On March 11, 1862, at a place known as Brandon’s Store, Noah with his brothers Samuel and Demcy, joined the Confederate States Army for “three years of war.” Brother Charles would join the 53rd Alabama Cavalry, Co H, while their older brother Lewin, now living in Mississippi would enlist in the State Guard there. Noah and Demcy would soon find themselves in the Alabama 33rd Infantry, Co F, while Samuel went with the Alabama 25th Infantry Co K. Samuel would die at Fair Grounds hospital near Atlanta. It would not be until 2009 before Samuel’s grave is known to his descendents. Samuel, along with another two thousand Confederates, is buried in Oakland Cemetery of Atlanta. This cemetery is located on the hill where John Bell Hood is said to have observed the battle for Atlanta.

During the course of the war, Sgt. Noah Carroll was injured at Corinth while building breast works, survived the train wreck at Cleveland, Tennessee, had chronic bronchitis from guard duty in the cold and received a bullet wound somewhere along the way. At the battle of Franklin, Tennessee, where the 33rd lost two-thirds of its strength, Noah Marshall was taken captive and sent to the notorious Camp Douglas at Chicago for the duration of the war. Somehow he survived it all as did Charles and Lewin.

After the war Noah moved his family to Holmes County , Florida where he farmed and served as Justice of the Peace and County Commissioner. In 1896 and 1902 he applied for his Florida Confederate Pension, on numbers DO1003 and A11591. Noah Marshall Carroll went to be with his comrades on December 1, 1910. He is buried in the Corinth Church Cemetery in Holmes County, Florida. Noah Carroll is the ancestor of camp member Marshall Carroll.