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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert B. Keller

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer at Rockdale in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted on 4 September 1861 at Eastville, AL and mustered as a Private in Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Company D in June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Julia Ann Ayers (1843-) in about 1860 and they had a daughter Poline (1862-1870).

His brother John, also in Company D, was with him on South Mountain.

Birth

c. 1840; Randolph County, AL

Death

09/14/1862; Turner's Gap, MD

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 32687]

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 32688]

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