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Confederate (CSA)

Major

Robert Emmett McMillan

(1836 - 1890)

Home State: Georgia

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 24th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 23 year old lawyer in Clarksville, Habersham County, GA. He was elected and commissioned Major, 24th Georgia Infantry on 24 August 1861 - his father Robert McMillan (1805-1868) was Colonel.

On the Campaign

He was in command of the regiment at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 after Lieutenant Colonel Sanders took over the brigade. He was severely wounded later that day by a gunshot which broke his right fibula (lower leg bone).

The rest of the War

He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by November and furloughed home on 20 December 1862. His leave was extended and he was in hospital again in June 1863, and he resigned his commission because of his Sharpsburg wound on 19 December 1863 (accepted 8 January 1864).

After the War

In 1870 he was a "retired merchant + executor" in Clarksville, GA and lived with his younger brothers William and Charles.

References & notes

His service from the Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

11/20/1836; Elbert County, GA

Death

03/06/1890; burial in Old Clarkesville Cemetery, Clarkesville, GA

Notes

1   Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964  [AotW citation 19451]

2   US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927  [AotW citation 29542]