Robert George Washington Sloman

He had served in the Mexican-American War about 1846-48 as a Corporal in Company I of the Palmetto Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. He was a farmer near Bowdon Village, GA by 1860, and he enlisted there at age 36 as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 30 July 1861.

He was killed by a gunshot through his head in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

His Civil War service from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf], as Robert G.W. Slowman. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married married Lucretia Duretin Wiggins (1831-1891) in December 1849 and they had 4 children.

c. 1825 in SC

09/14/1862; Crampton's Gap, MD