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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert T. Clingan

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Cavalry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted on 14 April 1862 in Atlanta, GA as a Private in Captain Rices's Company B (later G), Cobb's Legion Cavalry.

On the Campaign

Brigadier General J E B Stuart, cavalry commander, later wrote:

Private R. T. Clingan, Company G, Cobb's Georgia Legion, one of my couriers, was killed while behaving with the most conspicuous bravery, having borrowed a horse to ride to the field. He had been sent to post a battery of artillery from his native State.

References & notes

His service basics from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. The quote above from Major General Stuart's after-action report.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 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 32019]

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