Robert Louis Hallonquist

He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 15 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D of the 6th Alabama Infantry. He transferred to Captain Phelan's Company (F), 3rd Alabama Infantry on 2 January 1862.

He was with his company in Maryland and "Brigadier-General Rodes reports as specially deserving notice for their gallantry ... Private(s) ... Hollanquist."

He was appointed Acting Adjutant for "gallantry in the Battle of Boonsboro," but was the subject of a court martial in April 1863, charges and outcome not found. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA with a scalded foot in December 1863 and January 1864, and with syphilis in April and May, and was wounded on 2 June at Gaines Mill near Richmond. He was a patient in Howard's Grove Hospital there by 3 June then furloughed home on the 18th for 60 days. He was detailed as a nurse at Howard's Grove from 3 November to at least February 1865. He was paroled at Montgomery, AL on 12 May 1865.

He had applied to the Secretary of the Navy for a commission in the CS Marine Corps in March 1863 and a year later to the Secretary of War for the post of 2nd Lieutenant in the First Battery Alabama Artillery, with recommendations of at least 2 Congressmen and Brigadier General Battle, but no such commissions were found.

In 1900 he was a farmer living with his children in Wetumpka, AL.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The Rodes quote above from General D H Hill's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1900, which has his birth in Alabama. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his son Robert, Jr applied to the War Department for his government headstone in February 1939.

He married Louisa Macdonald (1855-1888) in June 1880 and they had 3 children.

01/1840; Barnwell District, SC

07/01/1907; in AL; burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, AL