Marion T. Cabaness - Civil War Soldier Multi-Cache

You are seeking a short two stage multi cache that begins at the grave marker for Marion T. Cabaness, who served in the Civil War.

Marion T. Cabaness

2^nd Sergeant

Deserter

Marion T. Cabiness and his two brothers, Alexander and Rasmus, all were involved in the Civil War, but with much different outcomes to their respective time of service.  

Their stories begin to be unusual before the war started. Their mother died, and their father, John C. Cabaness left his children with relatives in the Pickens County area to find his fortune in the California Gold Rush. Their father apparently died in San Francisco in 1857, as noted in an obituary.

Alexander and Marion both enlisted in Company A of the 41^st Alabama Infantry Regiment, and Marion was promoted during the war to the rank of 2^nd Sergeant. His brother Alexander served as a private through the war, survived and moved to Georgia where he died in 1917.

Rasmus enlisted in what became Company G of the 38^th Tennessee Infantry, a unit from Tuscaloosa that was known as the “Tuskaloosa Ploughboys”. These men enlisted at Big Creek Church with Captain James Mayfield leading them. When they reported for training in at a camp near Memphis, the soldiers contracted measles, and at least 8 of the soldiers died of the disease. Rasmus was one of those that succumbed to the measles. There is a marker placed for him in Belk, he was likely buried in the small cemetery at what was Camp Abington, where there are graves for several unknowns, assumed by many to be the soldiers who died of sickness in the camp.

Ancestry web sites return interesting but limited information on Marion. Although he is listed as serving as 2^nd Sergeant, he is noted also as being a deserter. His service records note that on September 8, 1863, just 18 months after enlisting, this deserter was killed at home, in the Echola community, and buried here at Dunn’s Creek Cemetery. No details have been found about why or by whom he was killed, his grave simply marked by a military grave stone.

To locate the final, solve:

33 21.4AB   

87 48.2CD  

A = Add together the second and fourth digits in the year of his birth.

B = The fourth digit in the year of his birth.

C = Subtract 2 from the date of his birth.

D = Add together the first digit in the number of his regiment and the third digit in the year of his birth.