Robert Edward "Bob" Martin

Robert Edward “Bob” Martin N E M V K Y Photo: Image file is saved in E:\BHC Work Folder\Cavalryman Photos. Dink has individual photo of him.[2705] The photo of Robert Martin was published in Alexander Hunter’s [BH] books.[2706] Born: Around 1843 if 18 in 1861.[2707] Born 1843.[2708] 15 August 1831 in Fauquier County.[2709] Married: Mary Virginia[2710] Childs, sister of Black Horseman James H. Childs above, December 13, 1869.[2711] She died Feb. 4, 1912.[2712] Mary Virginia (Childs) ( –4 February 1912) on 14 December 1869. She died in Casanova, Virginia. Died: Bob Martin died “a few years after the war, killed by a runaway horse[2713]… Buried next to his brother Josh Martin in the Martin family cemetery.” He died in a runaway horse accident, 30 January 1871.[2714] Grave marked R.E.M.[2715] 1869; Martin Family Cemetery.[2716] 30 January 1871 in Fauquier County.[2717] Obituary: “Thrown from a sleigh andkilled, on the 29th of January 1871 … ]. …Unlooked for, unwarned, death came in the danger that was hardly feared as such….”[2718] See Obituary Chapter. Children: They had one daughter, Annie Robert[2719] Martin, born 10 November 1870.[2720] She died young, 2 October 1874.[2721] She is probably buried in the Martin or Childs Family Cemetery. Parents and Siblings: Other Family: Cite Martin Bible. Stories, Letters & Biographies: “…Robert … was the orderly sergeant of the Black Horse, and he was to the enemy’s scouts a rankling thorn. … [T]he Colonel presented the English heavy-bore to Sergeant Martin ….”[2722] “I was pleased to learn of the compliment paid to Robert Martin, he is a very deserving young man and a splendid soldier.”[2723] See Stories Chapter. “Bob Martin had sworn that he would never be taken alive….”[2724] “At the surrender at Appomattox I was at home on horse detail. On my return trip to the Company, I met it at Madison Courthouse. They had refused to surrender.”[2725] See Stories Chapter under John Edward Armstrong. “William Keith Skinker was a farmer. But during the Civil War…”[2726] See Stories Chapter under William Keith Skinker. CSR: 5’11” dark complexion; enlisted 25 April 1861; 18 years old; 3rd Sgt; 1st Sgt.; wounded January 1864 Fauquier County; horse killed 15 April 1864 Germantown; paroled 6 May 1865 Winchester; declared “the bravest man in the Confederate Army” and presented with a rifle from a British gentleman through Captain Randolph (see Katherine I. Keith’s “The Record of the Black Horse Troop”). Additional Information: Sergeant.[2727] Wounded near Bealeton, January, 1864. Dead.[2728] Listed as “R. E. Martin.”[2729] During January or February 1865, “Sergeant Martin planned a raid upon a Yankee camp with some score of men, and met with a decided defeat, being himself wounded. “Our sergeant was the Paris of the company; invulnerable even in his heel, for though in the very thickest of every battle, and way in the advance of every charge, yet neither shell, bullet, nor grape ever touched him. But the charm was broken at last, and this bullet with its billet laid him up for several weeks.”[2730]