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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Milton B. Robson

(c. 1832 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 27th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 26 year old farmer on his parent's place at University Station, Orange County, NC. He enlisted at Fort Macon, NC on 18 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in the Orange Guards - Company G, 27th North Carolina Infantry on 22 June.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Harpers Ferry and in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and J.A. Graham's Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards in his Papers.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1832; Orange County, NC

Death

12/13/1862; Fredericksburg, VA

Notes

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 31490]

2 Graham, James Augustus, and H.M. Wagstaff, editor, The James A. Graham Papers, 1861-1884, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928, p. 266 [AotW citation 31491]

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