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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert A. Burges

(c. 1843 - 1874)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old student living with his family in Seguin, TX. He enlisted in New Orleans as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 27 February 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 1 November 1862 and to 5th Sergeant by January 1864. He was slightly wounded in the leg in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, was in Richmond hospitals to 28 July, then on furlough for 60 days. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, also as R.A. Burgess. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860.

His brothers William Henry (WIA Sharpsburg) and Richard Joseph "Dick" Burges (WIA 2nd Manassas) were also in Company D.

Birth

c. 1843; Madison County, TN

Death

09/15/1874; Seguin, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1722]

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 26819]

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