Company H · 4th Virginia Cavalry · Black Horse
Robert Mitchell
1833–1915
Confederate Service Record
Enlisted 25 April 1861; 3rd Sgt; promoted second Sgt. 19 September 1861; absent November to December 1861 sick Typhoid; wounded 1862 near Richmond; captured 26 January 1864 Fauquier County; Old Capitol Prison 2 February 1864; Fort Delaware 15 June 1864; exchanged 30 September 1864; present October 1864; paroled 13 May 1865 Fairfax Courthouse.
Robert Mitchell N M V B K Y Photo: Born: 10 April 1833.[2826] Married: Died: 27 March 1915.[2827] Buried Henson Family Cemetery Little Georgetown, Fauquier County.[2828] Buried Baldwin Ridge Episcopal Church Cemetery.[2829] “East of Warrenton at Junction of Rt. 15-29 and 605. Go South on 605 two miles to Rt. 827 turn left. Route 1407 comes out there also, but stay on Rt. 827 for about three hundred yards. Cemetery on right in dense woods. Used to be a church there but no church there now.”[2830] Obituary: Children: Parents and Siblings: Other Family: Stories, Letters & Biographies: CSR: Enlisted 25 April 1861; 3rd Sgt; promoted second Sgt. 19 September 1861; absent November to December 1861 sick Typhoid; wounded 1862 near Richmond; captured 26 January 1864 Fauquier County; Old Capitol Prison 2 February 1864; Fort Delaware 15 June 1864; exchanged 30 September 1864; present October 1864; paroled 13 May 1865 Fairfax Courthouse. Additional Information: Listed as 3d Sergt.[2831] Sergeant.[2832] 3rd Sgt. Captured.[2833] Wounded in battles around Richmond in 1862. Prince William. [2834] Bob was an honorary pallbearer at the 1909 funeral of Robert Allison Hart.[2835]
This entry contains 10 footnote references. The full bibliography is in the References section.
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Source Rosters
- N Swearing-in Roll (10 May 1861)
- M Martin Roll (most authoritative)
- V Vanished Roster (~1874–1878)
- B Brawner's Farm Roll
- K K.I. Keith Roster (1924)
- Y Nanzig Register
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Suggest a correction →From A Biographical Register of the Members of Fauquier County Virginia's Black Horse Cavalry, 1859–1865. Compiled by Lynn C. Hopewell (1940–2006), with editorial assistance by Susan W. Roberts and research by Heidi Burke. Manuscript completed February 28, 2008. Published posthumously.