Robert, a clerk and bookkeeper by occupation, was commissioned Captain of Company "H", 23rd Virginia Infantry on 15 May 1861. He suffered from health problems, was not re-elected, and was dropped from the regimental rolls on 21 April 1862.
After working as a clerk in the Confederate Treasury Department, he enlisted as 1st Sergeant of Company "D", 3rd Regiment, Richmond Local Defense Troops on 20 June 1863. He was wounded at Green's Mill, near Richmond on 1 March 1864, where he served as acting Lieutenant. He was appointed Captain on 21 September 1864, but was court-martialed on 25 February 1865 and found guilty of quitting his guard without urgent necessity, and of conduct unbecoming an officer. He was stripped of his rank, enrolled as a Private, and was paroled at Burkeville, Virginia on 23 April 1865.
He and wife Ella Virginia Jacobs had at least one child, Anne.
His grave in the Olivia Tinsley Jacobs plot was marked in November 2022 through the efforts of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery", and of the Virginia Division, Children of the Confederacy.
After working as a clerk in the Confederate Treasury Department, he enlisted as 1st Sergeant of Company "D", 3rd Regiment, Richmond Local Defense Troops on 20 June 1863. He was wounded at Green's Mill, near Richmond on 1 March 1864, where he served as acting Lieutenant. He was appointed Captain on 21 September 1864, but was court-martialed on 25 February 1865 and found guilty of quitting his guard without urgent necessity, and of conduct unbecoming an officer. He was stripped of his rank, enrolled as a Private, and was paroled at Burkeville, Virginia on 23 April 1865.
He and wife Ella Virginia Jacobs had at least one child, Anne.
His grave in the Olivia Tinsley Jacobs plot was marked in November 2022 through the efforts of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery", and of the Virginia Division, Children of the Confederacy.
Robert, a clerk and bookkeeper by occupation, was commissioned Captain of Company "H", 23rd Virginia Infantry on 15 May 1861. He suffered from health problems, was not re-elected, and was dropped from the regimental rolls on 21 April 1862.
After working as a clerk in the Confederate Treasury Department, he enlisted as 1st Sergeant of Company "D", 3rd Regiment, Richmond Local Defense Troops on 20 June 1863. He was wounded at Green's Mill, near Richmond on 1 March 1864, where he served as acting Lieutenant. He was appointed Captain on 21 September 1864, but was court-martialed on 25 February 1865 and found guilty of quitting his guard without urgent necessity, and of conduct unbecoming an officer. He was stripped of his rank, enrolled as a Private, and was paroled at Burkeville, Virginia on 23 April 1865.
He and wife Ella Virginia Jacobs had at least one child, Anne.
His grave in the Olivia Tinsley Jacobs plot was marked in November 2022 through the efforts of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery", and of the Virginia Division, Children of the Confederacy.
After working as a clerk in the Confederate Treasury Department, he enlisted as 1st Sergeant of Company "D", 3rd Regiment, Richmond Local Defense Troops on 20 June 1863. He was wounded at Green's Mill, near Richmond on 1 March 1864, where he served as acting Lieutenant. He was appointed Captain on 21 September 1864, but was court-martialed on 25 February 1865 and found guilty of quitting his guard without urgent necessity, and of conduct unbecoming an officer. He was stripped of his rank, enrolled as a Private, and was paroled at Burkeville, Virginia on 23 April 1865.
He and wife Ella Virginia Jacobs had at least one child, Anne.
His grave in the Olivia Tinsley Jacobs plot was marked in November 2022 through the efforts of the "Friends of Shockoe Hill Cemetery", and of the Virginia Division, Children of the Confederacy.
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