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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Nevall Merritt

(c. 1842 - 1864)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

From the York District, he enlisted as Private, Company E, 17th South Carolina Infantry on 23 November 1861 in Columbia, SC.

On the Campaign

He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal in November 1862 and was killed in action at the Crater near Petersburg, VA on 30 July 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records, with his presence at "Boonsboro" from Colonel McMaster's list for the 17th South Carolina (Confederate States Army Casualty Lists and Narrative Reports, RG 109, NARA), both online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists. His memorial is on Findagrave.

He married Margaret Lucinda Graham (1839-1924) and they had two children, born in 1861 and 1864. She applied for his final pay in October 1864.

Birth

c. 1842; York District, SC

Death

07/30/1864; Petersburg, VA; burial in Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, VA