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Victor St. Martin was born on Aug. 2nd, 1828 in Donaldsonville, LA to Dr. Joseph St. Martin and Emelie Constance Dumont. Victor was also the older brother of Emile St. Martin on the same Company. Victor married Azema Mollere in Donaldsonville on Jan. 8th, 1847. They had seven children when he left his clerk's job and enlisted as a Lieutenant at Camp Moore on June 19th, 1861.

He was able to come home on recruiting duty in Feb. 1862 and returned to Virginia in April. Victor was sick in Lynchburg during May 1862. He became Captain of the Phoenix Company on June 27th, 1862, with the death of Capt. Nicholls. Victor was present at every action up to being severely wounded and captured at Sharpsburg, MD on Sept. 17th, 1862. He was exchanged on Nov. 5th, 1862 and rejoined his command.

Victor St. Martin was killed in action in the twilight attack on Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg, PA on July 2nd, 1863. Personal effects from his body were removed and saved. Family tradition states that his body was taken to Baltimore, MD, under the care of the family of his brother's fiance and that he was later buried in Arlington National Cemetery. However, his name does not appear on rolls there. He was likely removed from the battlefield at Gettysburg after the war and reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, VA.