Robert Grant

Before the war he was a lawyer, clerk of the State Senate, and bookkeeper in Milledgeville and Savannah, GA. In 1860 he was a 25 year old lawyer living in Savannah with his parents and 6 younger siblings. He enlisted as a Private in Company B, 8th Georgia Infantry on 21 May 1861 and was at First Manassas. He was appointed Lieutenant and Assistant Adjutant General, CSA on 18 September 1861 and assigned to Brigadier General Toombs. He was assigned to Capt. Jacob Read's (GA) Battery on 25 July 1862, but returned to Toombs' staff before the Maryland Campaign.

He was with Toombs at Sharpsburg and was with the General when they were both slightly wounded, Grant in the arm, in an encounter with Federal pickets on the evening of 18 September 1862.

He was on leave to recover from his wound to 14 November, during which time he was assigned as Adjutant of the First Georgia Battalion (Infantry) - which he probably never joined. He was assigned as AAG to H.W. Mercer's Brigade on 25 November 1862, serving in the Department of South Carolina and Georgia. He was promoted to Captain and Assistant Inspector General (AIG) on 15 August 1863 and was acting Judge Advocate by October. He was again Mercer's Brigade AIG, temporarily Inspector of the District of Georgia from August 1864 to 19 October, then returned as AAG to Mercer's Brigade, Cleburne's Division, by then commanded by H.R. Jackson.

He was surrendered near Durham, NC on 26 April 1865, then Captain and AIG to J.A. Smith's Brigade, Brown's Division, Hardee's Corps, and was paroled at Augusta, GA on 29 May.

He died of apoplexy (a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke) less than four months later.

His service from Krick1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

1835; Savannah, GA

08/14/1865; Savannah, GA; burial in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, GA