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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert B. Paul

(? - 1862)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted at Athens in Henderson County, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 15 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was initially reported missing at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, but was mortally wounded there, and captured.

The rest of the War

He was paroled at Sharpsburg on 27 September but died of wounds in Maryland about 1 October 1862.

References & notes

Service information from Davis 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3.

Death

10/01/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 164 - 165 [AotW citation 1931]

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 26736]

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