Robert W. Yopp

He enlisted on 13 May 1861 in Onslow County, NC and mustered the same day as a Private in Company E, 3rd North Carolina Infantry.

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

He was furloughed home on 25 September but back with his company on 27 October. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and treated in a hospital in Richmond, returning to duty by August 1863. He was wounded yet again, on 27 November 1863, at Payne's Farm, VA and again furloughed home, with a "flesh wound." He was captured, along with most of his regiment, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD until 14 August, when he was transferred to Elmira, NY. He was paroled there and sent to James River, VA for exchange on 2 March 1865, and was admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA on 10 or 11 March and immediately furloughed for 30 days.

His service from Moore, 1 as Robert W Yapp, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

11/25/1829; Sneads Ferry, NC

11/12/1909; Sneads Ferry, NC; burial in Yopp's Meeting House, Sneads Ferry, NC