Adam Marty (August 2, 1837 – February 7, 1923) was a Swiss-born member of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War.
[1] Before the Civil War, Marty worked as a farmhand for local land owner Henry Jackman.
At the age of eighteen he began an apprenticeship under Mort Webster, a Stillwater carriage painter.
On April 29, 1861, Marty and his fellow guards marched to Fort Snelling and were enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
[1] As a member of the First Minnesota, Adam Marty fought in many early Civil War battles such as Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, and the Peninsula Campaign.
Bloomer's leg required amputation, and he eventually returned home to Stillwater, serving in the Invalid Corps.
Marty continued to serve with the First Minnesota through the battles of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and ultimately Gettysburg.
Company B entered the battle with thirty-six men, by the end of the charge only six remained standing.
Rufus would get a piece of shrapnel in his side, and be forever known as “Old Ironsides.” And John Densmore would die on the battlefield carrying the colors of the First Minnesota.
Marty also helped form the "Last Man's Club" in 1887 for members of Company B.