Confederate Officer. Major of the 14th Virginia Infantry. Robert Henry Poore was born on May 31, 1823, and attended the University of Virginia. He was commissioned Captain of Company C of the 14th Virginia Infantry, a company he had been in command of since April 1860 as a volunteer unit. Poore was promoted to major on August 26, 1862.
Maj. Poole fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, at the side of Col. James G. Hodges, within four feet of the earthworks between the markers for Company K and Company B, of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. It is very possible that he was one of the casualties of a blast of canister from one of Cowan's 1st New York Battery.
Maj. Poore was taken to Pickett's Division Hospital, at Black Horse Tavern, on the Fairfield Road, were he later died. He was buried "north of the tavern near the burial place [the McClelland family cemetery]." His remains were later reburied George Bushman Farm, the XII Corps Hospital, along Rock Creek. There is no explanation as to why his body was moved here. It is not known if his grave was initially marked, but his remains were removed and sent south in the 1870s.
The final burial place of Major Poole is probably in the "Gettysburg" Section of Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, in an unknown grave. But, it has also been found that the possibility exists that he rests in an Unknown Cemetery in either Charlottesville or Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Maj. Poole fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, at the side of Col. James G. Hodges, within four feet of the earthworks between the markers for Company K and Company B, of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. It is very possible that he was one of the casualties of a blast of canister from one of Cowan's 1st New York Battery.
Maj. Poore was taken to Pickett's Division Hospital, at Black Horse Tavern, on the Fairfield Road, were he later died. He was buried "north of the tavern near the burial place [the McClelland family cemetery]." His remains were later reburied George Bushman Farm, the XII Corps Hospital, along Rock Creek. There is no explanation as to why his body was moved here. It is not known if his grave was initially marked, but his remains were removed and sent south in the 1870s.
The final burial place of Major Poole is probably in the "Gettysburg" Section of Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, in an unknown grave. But, it has also been found that the possibility exists that he rests in an Unknown Cemetery in either Charlottesville or Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Confederate Officer. Major of the 14th Virginia Infantry. Robert Henry Poore was born on May 31, 1823, and attended the University of Virginia. He was commissioned Captain of Company C of the 14th Virginia Infantry, a company he had been in command of since April 1860 as a volunteer unit. Poore was promoted to major on August 26, 1862.
Maj. Poole fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, at the side of Col. James G. Hodges, within four feet of the earthworks between the markers for Company K and Company B, of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. It is very possible that he was one of the casualties of a blast of canister from one of Cowan's 1st New York Battery.
Maj. Poore was taken to Pickett's Division Hospital, at Black Horse Tavern, on the Fairfield Road, were he later died. He was buried "north of the tavern near the burial place [the McClelland family cemetery]." His remains were later reburied George Bushman Farm, the XII Corps Hospital, along Rock Creek. There is no explanation as to why his body was moved here. It is not known if his grave was initially marked, but his remains were removed and sent south in the 1870s.
The final burial place of Major Poole is probably in the "Gettysburg" Section of Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, in an unknown grave. But, it has also been found that the possibility exists that he rests in an Unknown Cemetery in either Charlottesville or Fluvanna County, Virginia.
Maj. Poole fell at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, at the side of Col. James G. Hodges, within four feet of the earthworks between the markers for Company K and Company B, of the 69th Pennsylvania Infantry. It is very possible that he was one of the casualties of a blast of canister from one of Cowan's 1st New York Battery.
Maj. Poore was taken to Pickett's Division Hospital, at Black Horse Tavern, on the Fairfield Road, were he later died. He was buried "north of the tavern near the burial place [the McClelland family cemetery]." His remains were later reburied George Bushman Farm, the XII Corps Hospital, along Rock Creek. There is no explanation as to why his body was moved here. It is not known if his grave was initially marked, but his remains were removed and sent south in the 1870s.
The final burial place of Major Poole is probably in the "Gettysburg" Section of Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, in an unknown grave. But, it has also been found that the possibility exists that he rests in an Unknown Cemetery in either Charlottesville or Fluvanna County, Virginia.
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