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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert M. Barnes

(1845 - 1883)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 14 year old living with his parents and siblings in Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent from Fort Delaware to Aikens Landing, VA on 2 October and formally exchanged there on 10 November 1862. He was captured again, on 19 October 1864 at Strasburg, VA, held briefly at Harpers Ferry, then a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD with no later military record.

References & notes

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

His brother James was also in Company B.

Birth

1845

Death

12/31/1883; Atlanta, GA; burial in Westview Cemetery, Atlanta, GA

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 33710]

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