Madison C. Robbins

In 1860 he was an unmarried 20 year old student living with his parents, 5 siblings, and 5 slaves on their farm at Ashboro in Randolph County, NC. He enlisted at Harpers Ferry, VA on 12 June 1861, by then a 21 year old teacher in Marion, AL, and mustered the same day as a Private in Company G, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was present with his company in their engagements from First Manassas in 1861 to Second Manassas in 1862.

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial (cenotaph) is on Findagrave; he was probably buried in the Washington Confederate Cemetery at Rose Hill in Hagerstown, MD.

His brother William was Captain of Company G and assumed commend of the regiment at Sharpsburg. It is William's diary entry of 31 August 1896 that places his brother's burial:

... drove out to Rosehill Cemetery where one of my brothers, M.C. Robbins, killed in the battle of Antietam, lies buried in an unknown grave.

12/13/1839; Rutherford County, NC

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Washington Confederate Cemetery, Hagerstown, MD