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R.T Raborn
(1840 - 1862)
Home State: Louisiana
Education: Mt Lebanon University, Class of 1860
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 9th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He came to Bienville Parish, LA with his family in about 1850. On 12 March 1862, by then a 21 year old farmer in Brush Valley, LA he enlisted there and mustered as a Private in Company H, 9th Louisiana Infantry. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 15 April and was with his company in battles at Cedar Mountain on 9 August, 2nd Manassas 28-30 August, and at Harpers Ferry on 15 September.
On the Campaign
He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
References & notes
His service from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, both as R.T. Raborn. Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave. His picture from an excellent photograph provided by Greyson Beardsley, the original from descendant Carol Phillips McIver.
About two months before he enlisted, in January 1862, he married Armenia A. Prothro (1841-1891) at her birthplace, Lexington, SC. She bore their daughter Annie Tucker Staley Raborn (1862-1926) three days after Reuben was killed.
Birth
11/14/1840; Amite County, MS
Death
09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD
1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, pg. 231 [AotW citation 19850]
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 32269]