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Confederate (CSV)

Lieutenant

Robert Stell Fletcher

(c. 1822 - 1863)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

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

Before Sharpsburg

At about age 39 he enlisted in Bowdon, GA on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry. He was attached to the band as a Musician in February 1862 and was appointed 2nd Lieutenant of his company on 21 June (to date from 1 May).

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 killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850.

Birth

c. 1822; Henry County, GA

Death

03/05/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

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 33774]

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