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Pvt Abner B. Robertson

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Pvt Abner B. Robertson

Birth
Nottoway County, Virginia, USA
Death
1902 (aged 62–63)
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Crewe, Nottoway County, Virginia, USA Add to Map
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Abner served with Company C in the 18th Virginia Infantry. The son of Paschal Robertson and Saluda A. E. Bradshaw Robertson. Before the War of Northern Aggression, he was a farmer and a butcher in Nottoway County. When the War broke out in April 1861, Abner's older brothers, Robert A. and Thomas A. Robertson, both farmers, joined Captain Henry T. Owen's Nottoway Rifle Guards, which became Company C of the 18th Virginia Infantry. Abner did not join the company until 10 March 1862, when it passed through Orange Courthouse. Abner was slightly wounded at Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862, and again at Frayser's Farm on 30 June 1862. He remained sick in hospitals at Lynchburg and Danville from late August to early October of 1862. He fell into the hands of the enemy and was held as a prisoner of war, first at Fort Delaware then at Point Lookout, before he was exchanged in late February of 1865. He was unable to keep up with his regiment and received his parole at Burkeville, in Nottoway County, in mid-April 1865. After the War, Abner Robertson remained in Nottoway County, where he married Ann Thomas Dalton of Lunenburg, who gave him nine children. Abner helped build the Baptist church in Crewe, where he worked as a farmer and a butcher until his death.

Abner served with Company C in the 18th Virginia Infantry. The son of Paschal Robertson and Saluda A. E. Bradshaw Robertson. Before the War of Northern Aggression, he was a farmer and a butcher in Nottoway County. When the War broke out in April 1861, Abner's older brothers, Robert A. and Thomas A. Robertson, both farmers, joined Captain Henry T. Owen's Nottoway Rifle Guards, which became Company C of the 18th Virginia Infantry. Abner did not join the company until 10 March 1862, when it passed through Orange Courthouse. Abner was slightly wounded at Gaines' Mill on 27 June 1862, and again at Frayser's Farm on 30 June 1862. He remained sick in hospitals at Lynchburg and Danville from late August to early October of 1862. He fell into the hands of the enemy and was held as a prisoner of war, first at Fort Delaware then at Point Lookout, before he was exchanged in late February of 1865. He was unable to keep up with his regiment and received his parole at Burkeville, in Nottoway County, in mid-April 1865. After the War, Abner Robertson remained in Nottoway County, where he married Ann Thomas Dalton of Lunenburg, who gave him nine children. Abner helped build the Baptist church in Crewe, where he worked as a farmer and a butcher until his death.

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