Johnsey Roberts

AGE: 28 AGE AS OF: 10/19/61

OCCUPATION: Farmer

HEIGHT: 5ft. 9in. COMPLEXION: Dark EYE COLOR: Blue

HAIR COLOR: Dark

BIRTH COUNTY: Marshal

BIRTH STATE: WV

REGIMENT: 9th West Virginia Infantry

BEGINNING RANK: SERGEANT

ENDING RANK: SERGEANT

DEATH DATE: 08/24/64

BURIAL CITY: Sharpsburg STATE: MD

CAUSE OF DEATH: Combat wound

REMARKS: POW 7/24/62 to 9/13/62. Re-enlisted 2/29/64. Died in hospital Cumberland, MD 8/24/64 of wounds received near Winchester, VA 7/20/64 Died 8.00 pm at Cumberland, MD from wounds received near Winchester, VA 7/20/64

SGT Co A 9th Regiment West Virginia Infantry. Mustered out 24 Aug 1864. Original place of burial - Claryville

Info from wvgw.net

JOHNSEY ROBERTS - Service Record: Joined for duty & enrolled at Mason City, Va. Oct. 19, 1861; mustered in Nov. 28, 1861 at Mason City. Taken POW at Sommersville July 24-25/62; paroled at Aiken's Landing Sep 13, 1862. Re-enlisted and mustered in Feb. 29, 1864 at Fayetteville, Va. "Died in US Gen. Hosp., Cumberland, Md., Aug. 24, 1864 from gunshot wounds received at Carter's Farm July 20/1864." "Born in Marshall County, W.Va." "Residence, Wood County, W.Va." Diagnosis – "Gun Shot Wounds Left Thigh; died from Cachexia and Colliquative Diarrhea." "Sergeant."

Both Johnsey & Walter Roberts were the sons of John Barton Roberts, born in Marshall County, and a resident of Wetzel County in 1850, and Wood County in 1860. Their brother, Francis Marion Roberts, died in the war in 1863. The father served in this company and received a medical discharge. When Walter S. Roberts married Elizabeth R. Anderson in Wood County in 1858, he stated he was born in Marshall County and was living in Marshall County. They are listed in the 1860 census of Marshall County with their son, James A., age 1.

" — Private J. Roberts, Co. A, 9th West Virginia, aged 31 years; wounded at Winchester, July 20, 1864 ; shot wound of left thigh, denuding upper third of femur of its periosteum; missile lodged, and was extracted July 27th; haemorrhage set in on July 29th. and Surgeon J. B. Lewis, U. S. V., ligated the femoral artery. Typhoid symptoms supervened, and the patient died August 24, 1864." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume II. (3rd Surgical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1883.