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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Douglas Crawford

(1834 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 6th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private in Company D, 6th South Carolina Infantry, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September.

The rest of the War

He died at Sharpsburg of wounds on 19 September 1862. He was originally buried "In the hollow west of Israel Smith's barn" on the battlefield at Sharpsburg and probably reinterred at Hagerstown in about 1874.

References & notes

Burial information from Pruett.1 Service from his Compiled Military Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database, which has him as R.D. Crofford. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Jane Alexander (1842-1918) in March 1859. Their second son Robert Douglas Crawford, Jr. was born 26 October 1862.

Birth

1834; Fairfield District, SC

Death

09/19/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD

Notes

1 Pruett, Samuel, and Poffenberger & Good, Greg Farino and Western Maryland Regional Library (WMRL), Washington Confederate Cemetery, possible burials, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 4634]

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