John Dixon Howell Robison

A married 29 year old farmer from Eastville, AL, he enlisted there on 12 July 1861 and mustered as First Sergeant of Company E of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was elected First Lieutenant on 20 October 1861 and was wounded at Seven Pines, VA on 31 May 1862.

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

He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and again at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was captured at Greencastle, PA on 5 July on the return march and in US hospitals in Chambersburg and Harrisburg, PA to 3 September. He was then in a hospital in Baltimore until transferred to the prison on Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH on 29 September 1863. He was sent to Point Lookout, MD on 14 March 1865 for exchange with no later military record.

By 1870 and to 1910 he was a farmer at Bowdon/New Mexico in Carroll County, GA.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Catherine Jane Johnson (1836-1896) in October 1850 and they had 10 children. He married again, the widow Martha Ann Elizabeth Bishop Alsabrooks Stewart (1849-1932) in August 1897.

His father Manoah was Captain of his company at Sharpsburg.

09/14/1832; Heard County, GA

12/08/1910; Carroll County, GA; burial in Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery, Joel, GA