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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Fulton Norvell

(c. 1826 - ?)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Born in Virginia, he came to Navarro County by 1850 and was a 36 year old mechanic there when he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 March 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 absent, probably without leave, between 24 December 1862 and 1 June 1863. He was wounded by a gunshot to his shoulder at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863, his arm was amputated, and he was captured there on 5 July. He was paroled at Baltimore on 23 August and sent to City Point, VA for exchange on the 24th. He was in the CS Hospital in Petersburg on 24 August 1863 and afterward on furlough or in hospitals for at least the next year. There is no later military record in his file.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850 and 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his memorial has his birth date as 1 June 1824.

He married Nancy Mahalia Allen (1838-) in October 1864 in Henderson County and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1826; Bedford County, VA

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165  [AotW citation 1928]

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 26940]