William Benton Robison

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.

He was wounded by a gunshot to the right side of his head, his skull fractured, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

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.

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.

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.

03/16/1837; Cottonville, AL

12/10/1907; Marshall County, AL; burial in Walker Cemetery, Hebron, AL