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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert T. Sherley

(c. 1840 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old farm hand living with his mother Elizabeth and brother John at Louina in Randolph County, AL. He enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was wounded in the hand on 1 July 1862, probably at Malvern Hill, VA and returned to duty from a Richmond, VA hospital on 4 August.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

His mother filed a claim for his final pay in January 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as Robert T Shearley, and the Alabama Archives,2 as Robert T. Shirley. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Robt. T Sherly.

Birth

c. 1840 in SC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, 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 32917]

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 32918]

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