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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Roan T. Shelton, Jr.

(1841 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company K, 21st Mississippi Infantry about 1 June 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by gunshot and captured in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was briefly at a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD from 15-16 October 1862. He was captured in action (date and place unknown) and died while a prisoner at Rock Island, IL on 5 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List,1 as R.R. Shelter. He and his father are seen in genealogies as Robert Roan Shelton (without the "T"). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

08/31/1841 in AL

Death

04/05/1864; Rock Island, IL; burial in Rock Island Prison Cemetery, Rock Island, IL

Notes

1 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #750 [AotW citation 21417]

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