Robert David Blackshear

He went to Texas from Georgia in January 1856. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry on 1 May 1862 at Anderson in Grimes County.

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

He was back with his Company by November 1862 but was sick in hospitals in Richmond, VA in April and May 1863 and afterward detailed as a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department to about April 1864. He was wounded again, by a gunshot to his face, at Spotsylvania, VA on 12 May 1864. He was retired and sent home to Texas on 11 July 1864.

In 1870 he was farming at Brenham in Washington County, TX and by 1880 and to at least 1910 at Navasota in Grimes County.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, notably P.L. Blackshear's Blacksheariana [PDF](1954), from Linda Sue Newland's UNT Master's thesis [PDF] (1998), and the US Census for 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has 1916, but his death may have been in 1915.

One of 4 Blackshear brothers in Company G.

He married Emily Susan Wyche (1836-1861) in August 1857 in Georgia, and they had a son, Mitchell (1858-59). He married again, Sarah Lucinda Foster (1843-1908) in Texas in April 1866 and they had 5 children.

10/30/1833; Thomasville, GA

02/03/1916; Navasota, TX; burial in Oakland City Cemetery, Navasota, TX