John Gibson Parkhurst
9th Michigan Vol. Infantry
Parkhurst was taken prisoner at Murfreesboro in July 1862, spent three months in a Southern prison, and was exchanged in December 1862. He served as lieutenant colonel and colonel in the 9th Michigan Infantry, provost marshal of the 14th Army Corps and of the Military District of Tennessee, and was brevet brigadier general of U. S. Volunteers. Parkhurst was from Coldwater, Mich. From 1866 to 1869 he was marshal of the Michigan District and in 1888-1889 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Belgium.
Source:
Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan Infantry,
Coldwater, Mich., 1913, by Charles Bennett.