(1837 - 1907)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 48th Alabama Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer at Cottonville in Fraet Township, Marshall County, AL. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 48th Alabama Infantry on 13 March 1862 in Warrenton, AL.
On the Campaign
He was wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his head, his skull fractured, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a hospital in Charlottesville, VA, where he had surgery on 10 October to have parts of his skull removed. He recovered well, with a large depressed area of scarring. He was discharged on 19 (or 23) March 1863.
After the War
By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Marshall County. In 1900, still farming, he was living with his eldest daughter Mary Walker and her family there. In 1907 he was living in Lamont, AL.
References & notes
His service and personal basics from the State of Alabama,1 as William B. Robinson. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 as William B. Robertson. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Amanda A. Martin (1839-1896) in April 1858 and they had 9 children by 1878. They divorced sometime after 1880.
Birth
03/16/1837; Cottonville, AL
Death
12/10/1907; Marshall County, AL; burial in Walker Cemetery, Hebron, AL
1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31316]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, pp. 244-245 [AotW citation 31317]