Robert Willis Taylor Pittman

In 1860 he was a 25 year old sawyer living next door to his parent's farm at Danielsville in Madison County, GA. He enlisted in Athens, GA on 1 March 1862 as a Private in the Troup Artillery.

He was wounded by a gunshot through his leg or foot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was home in Athens on furlough into November 1862. In early 1864 he was detailed to the reserve ordnance train, and was surrendered with them at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he farmed his own place in Danielsville; in 1900 the census taker identified his neighborhood as the Pittman District.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His wound from a list of casualties published in the Athens Southern Banner of 8 October 1862 - from a letter from Captain Carlton to Carlton's parents. His nickname from a letter Private Hemphill wrote home, published in the Athens Southern Banner of 1 October 1862; thanks to Laura Elliott for transcribing both of those articles. Personal details from family genealogists, notably The Pittman Family from the the Pittman Family Historical Society (1957), and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances Evalina Octavia "Duck" Strickland (1835-1909) in February 1857 and they had as many as 6 children.

Two of his brothers, James Edward Lafayette Pittman (1838-1910) and William Preston Pittman (1843-1867) were also members of the Troup Artillery.

He was probably named Robert Willis Taylor Pittman at birth, but does not seem to have used Taylor at all as an adult.

12/09/1834; Jackson County, GA

03/16/1910; burial in Center United Methodist Church Cemetery, Center, GA