From the Richmond Dispatch, 2/21/1863, p. 2, c. 1

Died. – Capt. S. S. Marchant, company H, 136th Pennsylvania regiment, died yesterday at the Libby prison of hospital gangrene. Merchant was captured at the battle of Fredericksburg, where he was shot through the hip and abdomen, and abandoned on the field by his men.

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