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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Hartwell Nations

"Bob"

(1839 - 1908)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He came with his family from Mississippi to Texas in about 1844 and was a 23 year old farmer on his father's place in Gonzales County, when he enlisted there as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 18 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as a deserter on 13 December 1863 with no further military record.

After the War

By 1870 he was raising stock on his own place in Gonzales. In 1880 he was a hotel keeper in Oakville, Live Oak County, TX and was in that business in Beeville, Bee County at the time of his death.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Frank was also in Company A and was killed at Sharpsburg.

Birth

07/25/1839; Yalobusha County, MS

Death

09/08/1908; Beeville, TX; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Beeville, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316 [AotW citation 1642]

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 26589]

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