Robert Jolly

In 1860 he was a 22 year old overseer of 32 slaves on the Elias A Carr plantation at Snow Hill in Greene County, NC. He enlisted in Goldsboro, NC on 13 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was listed as absent without leave from December 1862 into February 1863, then in a hospital, ill, from 20 March into May, when he returned to his company. He was wounded and captured at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was in the DeCamp General Hospital on David's Island in New York Harbor by 24 July and paroled there on 24 August 1863. He was dropped from the company roll on 1 November 1863 as a deserter, with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer near Johnson's Mill in Pitt County, NC but by 1880 was a laborer in Greene County, NC. In 1900 he was again a farmer back in Pitt County and by 1910, then age 73, was working in a wagon factory in Winterville, NC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His death date is given by at least one genealogist as 10 April 1910, but he was counted in the US Census of 1910 on 6 May 1910, so the April date is suspect.

He married Eliza Jane Sylivant (1839-before 1900) and they had 7 children between 1863 and 1885.

c. 1838; Pitt County, NC

c. 1910; Pitt County, NC