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"Frank"
(1835 - 1913)
Home State: Louisiana
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 10th Louisiana Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Son of lawyer Edward Rawle (1797-1880) of the prominent Pennsylvania Quaker family, in 1860 Frank was an unmarried 24 year old bookkeeper living with his father and 3 siblings in New Orleans, LA. He enrolled there on 26 April 1861 and mustered for one years' service as Captain of Company C, First Louisiana (Nelligan's) Infantry. He was appointed Captain and Assistant Quartermaster (QM) and assigned as QM of the 10th Louisiana Infantry on 6 July 1862, his rank dating from 27 June.
On the Campaign
He was with his regiment on the Maryland Campaign.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major and Brigade Quartermaster on 13 October 1862 and was in that post to the end of the war. He was Quartermaster of Gordon's Division, Early's Corps when he was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1880 he was a stock broker in New Orleans.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1,2 online from fold3. His presence in Maryland from a receipt he signed in Frederick on 9 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. He was probably named for the first Rawle (Francis Jr., 1663-1727) to come to America, in 1687.
He married the widow Isabella Virginia Marks Canney (1838-1891) in 1878.
Birth
07/26/1835; New Orleans, LA
Death
08/31/1913; New Orleans, LA
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 33831]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate General and Staff Officers, Corps, Division and Brigade Staffs ..., Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33832]