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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Robertson

(? - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted and mustered in Fayette County, MS on 15 April 1862 as a Private in Company D, 19th Mississippi Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hip in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sick in a hospital from May into July 1863 and mortally wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864. He died the next day.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records (CSRs),1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound also on a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as W. Robison. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Death

05/13/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania Courthouse, VA

Notes

1   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 29801]