Son of Robert Allen Caldwell and Mary Rennick Holman. Never married that we know of. In 1860 he, his father, and a brother were listed in the census as potters in Benton County, Missouri. He was from a family of potters going back to the late 1790's. By the start of the Civil War, his family had moved to Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas. He enlisted 1 Mar 1862 at Boston Mountain, Arkansas. His older brother Henry Thomas Caldwell and younger brother John H. Caldwell served in the Confederacy. His sister Mattie spied on the Feds for the Confederates at Cane Hill. It was thought by the family that he died in a battle at Vicksburg on 5 May 1863 due to an the last entry in his journal by which his officer wrote that he died in battle at Vicksburg., But the finding of his grave stone leads one to conclude he died at the battle of Port Gibson, which started shortly after midnight, on 1 May 1863. [Biographical information provided by Tom M. Short II.]
Son of Robert Allen Caldwell and Mary Rennick Holman. Never married that we know of. In 1860 he, his father, and a brother were listed in the census as potters in Benton County, Missouri. He was from a family of potters going back to the late 1790's. By the start of the Civil War, his family had moved to Cane Hill, Washington County, Arkansas. He enlisted 1 Mar 1862 at Boston Mountain, Arkansas. His older brother Henry Thomas Caldwell and younger brother John H. Caldwell served in the Confederacy. His sister Mattie spied on the Feds for the Confederates at Cane Hill. It was thought by the family that he died in a battle at Vicksburg on 5 May 1863 due to an the last entry in his journal by which his officer wrote that he died in battle at Vicksburg., But the finding of his grave stone leads one to conclude he died at the battle of Port Gibson, which started shortly after midnight, on 1 May 1863. [Biographical information provided by Tom M. Short II.]
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