James Carroll Robertson

An unmarried 21 year old farmer in St. Tammany Parish, he enlisted in Company K, 7th Louisiana Infantry on 7 June 1861 at Camp Moore, LA.

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

He was paroled, sent to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore, and was (formally) exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA on 10 November 1862. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 29 October and furloughed home on 14 November. He was promoted to First Corporal in November and again, to 4th Sergeant, in March, all while on on furlough into April 1863, when he returned to duty. He was 3rd Sergeant by August 1864 and temporarily transferred to Company G in October. was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 10 April 1865.

In July 1870 he was a deputy sheriff living in his soon-to-be father-in-law H.H. Bankston's household at Amite City in the newly created Tangipahoa Parish, LA. Bankston was then the Parish Sheriff.

His service from Booth,1 as James C Robinson, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a post-war portrait of him; the US War Department supplied his grave marker in November 1935.

He married (cousin?) Victoria Leah Bankston (later Chapman, 1848-1918) in November 1870 and they had 4 daughters.

05/25/1839; St. Tammany Parish, LA

11/24/1876; in LA; burial in Robertson Cemetery, Tangipahoa Parish, LA