Name: Francis Marion Francisco
Birth Date: 26 July 1840
Birth Place: Canadice, Ontario, Co.
Father: Jacob Francisco
Mother: Lovisa Goodfellow
Residence Place: Canadice NY
Enlistment Date: 1 January 1864
Enlistment Location: Canadice, Ontario, NY
Regiment: 85th Infantry, Company B
Rank: Corporal
Race: White
Marital Status: Single
1st enlistment: 26th of August 1861
Mustered in: 5th of September 1861, Corporal, Company B, 85th New York Infantry Regiment.
2nd, reenlistment: 1st of January 1864
Mustered in: 1st of January 1864, Corporal, Company B, 85th New York Infantry Regiment.
Death: 16th November 1864, Florence, Florence County, South Carolina.
In battle at Fair Oaks seven days, Winchester, Goldsborough and captured at Plymouth, Georgia, on April 20, 1864 and confined at Andersonville, Georgia. He was transferred to Charleston and then to the Florence Stockade, which was a prison camp that operated outside of Florence, South Carolina. Here Francis Marion Francisco died, and was buried in the burial trenches, along with approximately 2,300 other Union soldiers, who were also prisoners in the Florence Prison Stockade. The owner of a plantation adjacent to the prison allowed the dead to be buried in trenches on his property.
Names of those in trench burials were lost after the war, but are being researched by the Darlington District Chapter, South Carolina Genealogical Society. A current list of known casualties is located on a data base in the visitor center for public reference.
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