Robert Simonton Young

A 40 year old farmer from Cabarrus County, he mustered as Captain, Company B, 7th North Carolina Infantry on 16 May 1861. He was appointed Major on 27 June 1862.

He was captured at Frederick, MD on 15 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware, DE by 20 September, transferred to Aiken's Landing, VA 2 October, and exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He resigned his commission due to ill health on 6 July 1863. He was killed in action at Petersburg, VA on 18 July 1864 will serving as a volunteer on the staff of General Robert F. Hoke.

Service information from North Carolina Troops,1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

01/20/1821; Cabarrus County, NC

07/18/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Poplar Tent Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Concord, NC