Robert S Chew

Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Regimental Officer
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 30th Virginia Infantry

In the Antietam Campaign:
He is listed in command of the Regiment at Sharpsburg, and was wounded there on the 17th.1

The remainder of the War:
By February 1865, and through War's end at Appomattox, he was Colonel and in command of the 30th Virginia Infantry.2

Birth State: VA

Notes

1 US National Park Service, and Stephanie Gray and Keith Snyder, webmasters, Antietam National Battlefield, Published c. 1998, first accessed 01 January 1998, <http://www.nps.gov/anti/>, Source page: /Longstreet_W2.htm [AotW citation 217]

2 US War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (OR), 128 vols., Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, Vol. 46/Part 1 (Ser #95), pp. 1268 [AotW citation 218]

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