Open main menu
Open main menu
R.L. Vinson
(1844 - 1907)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 16 year old farm hand living with his parents and 2 siblings on their small farm at Rockford in Coosa County, AL. He enlisted there on on 29 June (or 2 July) 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was in action with his Company at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862. He was ill with dysentery in a Richmond, VA hospital in July and August 1862.
The rest of the War
He was appointed Musician (drummer) on 1 March 1863 and served to the end of the war.
After the War
By 1870 he was farming, then next door to his parents, in Bell County, TX, and farmed there to at least 1880. In 1900 he was a carpenter in Holland, Bell County, TX.
References & notes
His service from the Alabama Civil War Service Database 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph in the Alabama Archives.3
He married Dorothy Anna Rutland (1845-1919) in November 1866 in Coosa County, and they had 5 daughters and two sons, in that order.
Birth
07/25/1844; Caswell, TN
Death
02/15/1907; Holland, TX; burial in Holland Cemetery, Holland, TX
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx>, Source page: /civilwar/soldier.cfm?id=209197 [AotW citation 20096]
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 32528]
3 State of Alabama, State Archives, and Dr. Edwin C. Bridges, director, and staff, Alabama Department of Archives & History, Published c.2000, first accessed 08 July 2005, <http://www.archives.state.al.us/index.html>, Source page: /cdm/singleitem/collection/photo/id/5187/rec/532 [AotW citation 20097]