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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert B. Furgerson

(c. 1838 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 24 year old farmer at Ingraham in Randolph County, AL, he enlisted at Roanoke, AL on 15 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was listed as a deserter in June 1862 and was "brought back under guard to his command" in August.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and wounded by a "bomb" at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

After 31 October and to to April 1863 he was in hospitals in Richmond and Danville, VA, then furloughed home. He was discharged for disability in December 1863 due to ramollissement cerebelli (softening of the brain). A medical board in May 1864 found him suffering from paraplegia from his Sharpsburg wound.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in AL

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 32524]

2 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 32525]

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