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(1844 - 1899)
Home State: Florida
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 5th Florida Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
He enlisted at Camp Leon near Tallahassee, FL on 18 May 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company K, 5th Florida Infantry.
On the Campaign
He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 9 September, left behind, and captured there on the 12th.
The rest of the War
He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 21 September and afterward paroled for exchange. He was in Richmond, VA hospitals by 3 October and to 20 December 1862, then returned to duty.
By a Special Order of 23 April 1863 he was transferred to Company E of the 10th Florida Infantry. He was furloughed home, sick, on 22 June 1863 and did not return until sometime between January and August 1864. He was with his company to at least February 1865, captured, date not found, and a prisoner at Libby Prison in Richmond, VA until paroled there on 21 April 1865.
After the War
In 1870 he was a farmer at Thomasville in Thomas County, GA but by 1800 was farming just across the state line at Iomonia in Leon County, FL.
References & notes
His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also indexed as Robert B Bellingsley (10th Infantry). He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 & 1880.
He married Sarah Elizabeth Jones (1848-1910) in October 1865 and they had 7 children (6 gils, 1 boy).
Birth
04/06/1844 in FL
Death
11/22/1899
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 34795]
2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #359 [AotW citation 34796]