MAJ CO H 6TH TEXAS CAV
CSA..
GRAVE # 103..
Medallion Ceremony Honoring
Robert M. White Loyal CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
Friday 27 March 2009
4:30 p. m.
South Belton Cemetery
600 S. Penelope Street
Suggested edit: Robert M. White, Residence Belton TX; a 32 year-old Grocer. Enlisted on 7/1/1861 as a Captain. On 7/1/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. TX 6th Cavalry
He was Killed on 4/26/1863 at Duck River, TN.
Promotions:
* Major Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company H to Field & Staff
Other Information:
born 7/4/1828
Buried: South Belton Cemetery, Belton, TX
(Wife: Sarah. Sarah remarried Lt. William S. Riggs, 6th TX Cavalry)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Research by Brian Heintzelman
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
NOTES:
The following was submitted by: Brian Heintzelman
Robert M. White lived in Belton, Texas and was a grocer by trade. He was married and had one child. During the 1850's he was a lieutenant, leading Bob White's Ranging Company, a 25 man company trying to protect the Texas frontier from bands of hostile Indians. He also led posses to track down horse thieves.
At the beginning of the Civil War he organized a company of men for the war, which became Company H of the 6th Texas Cavalry, leaving home with his company on July 1, 1861. In April 1863 White was killed by enemy gunfire at Duck River, in north central Tennessee, shot through the body, dying that night.
He was buried near Duck River, later exhumed and his body reburied in the South Belton Cemetery, Belton, Texas. His dates were July 4, 1828 to April 26, 1863.
Newton A. Keen in his book, Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry, described Major White's death as follows:
"We then moved across to the Tennessee River where we got into a fight with some
Yankee gun boats and transports. We killed and wounded about three hundred men and
they had to sail by us in some forty yards. We were so low and the cannon shots from
the boats went clean over us. My! how we played havoc with those troops on the
transport. They made it pretty hot for us with small arms and pistols. Major White of
the sixth Texas cavalry was killed. He was standing about two feet to my right when
he was shot through the body. We brought him back off the battle field some two miles
and he died that night. He was a man beloved by all the soldiers. He was the only man
touched on this scout which lasted us about three weeks."
CSA..
GRAVE # 103..
Medallion Ceremony Honoring
Robert M. White Loyal CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
Friday 27 March 2009
4:30 p. m.
South Belton Cemetery
600 S. Penelope Street
Suggested edit: Robert M. White, Residence Belton TX; a 32 year-old Grocer. Enlisted on 7/1/1861 as a Captain. On 7/1/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. TX 6th Cavalry
He was Killed on 4/26/1863 at Duck River, TN.
Promotions:
* Major Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company H to Field & Staff
Other Information:
born 7/4/1828
Buried: South Belton Cemetery, Belton, TX
(Wife: Sarah. Sarah remarried Lt. William S. Riggs, 6th TX Cavalry)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Research by Brian Heintzelman
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
NOTES:
The following was submitted by: Brian Heintzelman
Robert M. White lived in Belton, Texas and was a grocer by trade. He was married and had one child. During the 1850's he was a lieutenant, leading Bob White's Ranging Company, a 25 man company trying to protect the Texas frontier from bands of hostile Indians. He also led posses to track down horse thieves.
At the beginning of the Civil War he organized a company of men for the war, which became Company H of the 6th Texas Cavalry, leaving home with his company on July 1, 1861. In April 1863 White was killed by enemy gunfire at Duck River, in north central Tennessee, shot through the body, dying that night.
He was buried near Duck River, later exhumed and his body reburied in the South Belton Cemetery, Belton, Texas. His dates were July 4, 1828 to April 26, 1863.
Newton A. Keen in his book, Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry, described Major White's death as follows:
"We then moved across to the Tennessee River where we got into a fight with some
Yankee gun boats and transports. We killed and wounded about three hundred men and
they had to sail by us in some forty yards. We were so low and the cannon shots from
the boats went clean over us. My! how we played havoc with those troops on the
transport. They made it pretty hot for us with small arms and pistols. Major White of
the sixth Texas cavalry was killed. He was standing about two feet to my right when
he was shot through the body. We brought him back off the battle field some two miles
and he died that night. He was a man beloved by all the soldiers. He was the only man
touched on this scout which lasted us about three weeks."
MAJ CO H 6TH TEXAS CAV
CSA..
GRAVE # 103..
Medallion Ceremony Honoring
Robert M. White Loyal CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
Friday 27 March 2009
4:30 p. m.
South Belton Cemetery
600 S. Penelope Street
Suggested edit: Robert M. White, Residence Belton TX; a 32 year-old Grocer. Enlisted on 7/1/1861 as a Captain. On 7/1/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. TX 6th Cavalry
He was Killed on 4/26/1863 at Duck River, TN.
Promotions:
* Major Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company H to Field & Staff
Other Information:
born 7/4/1828
Buried: South Belton Cemetery, Belton, TX
(Wife: Sarah. Sarah remarried Lt. William S. Riggs, 6th TX Cavalry)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Research by Brian Heintzelman
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
NOTES:
The following was submitted by: Brian Heintzelman
Robert M. White lived in Belton, Texas and was a grocer by trade. He was married and had one child. During the 1850's he was a lieutenant, leading Bob White's Ranging Company, a 25 man company trying to protect the Texas frontier from bands of hostile Indians. He also led posses to track down horse thieves.
At the beginning of the Civil War he organized a company of men for the war, which became Company H of the 6th Texas Cavalry, leaving home with his company on July 1, 1861. In April 1863 White was killed by enemy gunfire at Duck River, in north central Tennessee, shot through the body, dying that night.
He was buried near Duck River, later exhumed and his body reburied in the South Belton Cemetery, Belton, Texas. His dates were July 4, 1828 to April 26, 1863.
Newton A. Keen in his book, Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry, described Major White's death as follows:
"We then moved across to the Tennessee River where we got into a fight with some
Yankee gun boats and transports. We killed and wounded about three hundred men and
they had to sail by us in some forty yards. We were so low and the cannon shots from
the boats went clean over us. My! how we played havoc with those troops on the
transport. They made it pretty hot for us with small arms and pistols. Major White of
the sixth Texas cavalry was killed. He was standing about two feet to my right when
he was shot through the body. We brought him back off the battle field some two miles
and he died that night. He was a man beloved by all the soldiers. He was the only man
touched on this scout which lasted us about three weeks."
CSA..
GRAVE # 103..
Medallion Ceremony Honoring
Robert M. White Loyal CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
Friday 27 March 2009
4:30 p. m.
South Belton Cemetery
600 S. Penelope Street
Suggested edit: Robert M. White, Residence Belton TX; a 32 year-old Grocer. Enlisted on 7/1/1861 as a Captain. On 7/1/1861 he was commissioned into "H" Co. TX 6th Cavalry
He was Killed on 4/26/1863 at Duck River, TN.
Promotions:
* Major Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company H to Field & Staff
Other Information:
born 7/4/1828
Buried: South Belton Cemetery, Belton, TX
(Wife: Sarah. Sarah remarried Lt. William S. Riggs, 6th TX Cavalry)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Research by Brian Heintzelman
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
NOTES:
The following was submitted by: Brian Heintzelman
Robert M. White lived in Belton, Texas and was a grocer by trade. He was married and had one child. During the 1850's he was a lieutenant, leading Bob White's Ranging Company, a 25 man company trying to protect the Texas frontier from bands of hostile Indians. He also led posses to track down horse thieves.
At the beginning of the Civil War he organized a company of men for the war, which became Company H of the 6th Texas Cavalry, leaving home with his company on July 1, 1861. In April 1863 White was killed by enemy gunfire at Duck River, in north central Tennessee, shot through the body, dying that night.
He was buried near Duck River, later exhumed and his body reburied in the South Belton Cemetery, Belton, Texas. His dates were July 4, 1828 to April 26, 1863.
Newton A. Keen in his book, Living and Fighting with the Texas 6th Cavalry, described Major White's death as follows:
"We then moved across to the Tennessee River where we got into a fight with some
Yankee gun boats and transports. We killed and wounded about three hundred men and
they had to sail by us in some forty yards. We were so low and the cannon shots from
the boats went clean over us. My! how we played havoc with those troops on the
transport. They made it pretty hot for us with small arms and pistols. Major White of
the sixth Texas cavalry was killed. He was standing about two feet to my right when
he was shot through the body. We brought him back off the battle field some two miles
and he died that night. He was a man beloved by all the soldiers. He was the only man
touched on this scout which lasted us about three weeks."
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