William L. Strobert

In 1860 he was a house carpenter living with planter Mary A Williams and her family at Grahamville (St. Peter's Parish) in the Beaufort District, SC. He enlisted in Columbia, SC on 12 June 1861 and mustered on 22 June as a Private in Captain T.E. Screven's Company - the Beaufort Troop, later "C" of the Hampton Legion Cavalry Battalion. They were joined with the 4th South Carolina Cavalry Battalion and two other companies to form the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry Regiment in August 1862; the Beaufort Troop becoming Company B.

He was with his company in Maryland and was in a "cavalry charge" at Frederick, MD on 12 September 1862.

He deserted from his unit about 22 September near Martinsburg, VA and went to his father-in-law's home at Occoquan, VA hoping to be captured, as he was on 9 October, by Sgt. C.L. Douglas of the 12th Pennsylvania Cavalry. He was in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC by 17 October when Brigadier General Daniel Sickles personally vouched for him - possibly because of a previous acquaintance with his New Yorker father-in-law - and recommended he be paroled and relocated North with his new wife. There is no later military record.

By 1866 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer and wheelwright at Nokesville in Prince William County, VA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3; letters referring to his capture in Virginia, including that of General Sickles, are found in a folder for him filed with the 2nd SC Infantry. Both Hampton Legion and 2nd SC Infantry CSR cards have him as William L. Strobhart, and he's not found in the file for the 2nd Cavalry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 (as Strobhart) to 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Angelica M Hotchkiss (1844-1915) in 1861 and they had 5 daughters and a son between November 1862 and 1874.

01/08/1833 in GA

01/17/1894; Prince William County, VA; burial in Greenwood Presbyterian Cemetery, Dale City, VA