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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Robert Levi Donnell

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted on 4 May 1861 at Fort Macon, NC and mustered as Private, Company B, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 20 June.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA on 2 October and died there at age 26 on 6 November 1862 ...

He was wounded in the battle of Sharpsburg, and fell into the hands of the enemy. He wound seemed for a time to improve, but the surgeons decided at last that amputation was necessary [due to necrosis of the femur]. His leg was taken off in the afternoon and he died the same evening, from exhaustion. His remains were taken charge of by an old friend, residing in Philadelphia, and interred with every mark of respect.

He was originally buried near the hospital in Chester, PA and later removed to Medford, NJ.

References & notes

His service from Wilson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from his death notice in the Fayetteville Observer of 1 December 1862, transcribed by Myrtle Bridges on NC GenWeb. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/04/1837; Greensboro, NC

Death

11/06/1862; Chester, PA; burial in Medford Methodist Cemetery, Medford, NJ

Notes

1 Wilson, William P., Adjutant, Casualty list of the 27th N.C.S.T. at Sharpsburg, North Carolina Standard, 1862-10-15 [AotW citation 9839]

2 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 32089]

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