William Wallis Robinson

In 1860 he was a 24 year old m (medical?) student living on his twice-widowed mother Esther's farm in Mecklenburg County, NC. He enlisted at Ranalesburg, NC on 3 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 13 May in Raleigh. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 26 April 1862 at the army reorganization and was elected 2nd Lieutenant on 26 July.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 23 December 1862 and to Captain on 27 February 1863. He was wounded on 21 May 1864, probably at Spotsylvania Court House, VA, and "probably permanently" disabled. He was at home on wounded furlough from 27 August to at least January 1865, the latest record in his military file.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Steele Creek in Mecklenburg County, NC.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860; his father was Michael McLeary Robison (1802-1853), but William went by Robinson, and so named his children. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

11/29/1835; Mecklenburg County, NC

07/13/1894; Steele Creek, NC; burial in Steele Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charlotte, NC