Robert Locklier

In 1860 he was a 30 year old carpenter living with "planting mechanic" Alfred Skinner and family in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered on 8 August in Richmond, VA as a Private in Company E of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

He was wounded in the shoulder and left leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured there.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD and in the post hospital at Fort McHenry in Baltimore to 17 October, when he was well enough to travel, then transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 23 October and furloughed home from 4 November to 12 January 1863. He was on detail in Richmond hospitals to at least 8 April 1863 still "unfit for field service," with no later military record with the Legion.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Lockley, Lockler, Locklar, etc. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, as Robert W Locklain.

c. 1831