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Confederate (CSV)

Corporal

Robert Strom

(c. 1835 - 1862)

Home State: Louisiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 10th Louisiana Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 26 year old farmer in St. Landry Parish, he enlisted as Corporal, Company E, 10th Louisiana Infantry on 22 July 1861 at Camp Moore, LA. He was wounded in action while color bearer at Second Manassas in August 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 while bearing the colors.

References & notes

Service from Booth.1 His Manassas wound and his role at Sharpsburg from the Military Record.2

Birth

c. 1835 in SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Booth, Andrew B., Records of Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Louisiana Confederate Commands, 3 Volumes, New Orleans: State of Louisiana, 1920, Vol. 3, Book 2, pp. 726-727 [AotW citation 19884]

2 Bartlett, Napier, Military Record of Louisiana including Biographical and Historical Papers ..., New Orleans: L. Graham & Company, 1875, pg. 14 [AotW citation 19885]

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