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Wyndham Robertson Gilmer


Biography
Born 05/05/1843
Birth Location Russell Co.
Died 11/27/1915
Death Location Washington Co., VA
Father Charles H. Gilmer
Mother Frances Gose
Married 2/25/1869 (WA)
12/19/1877 (Pulaski Co.)
Spouses Ellen Clapp
Margaret Cecil
Military Units
29th Infantry
CSR, Pension, and Miscellaneous Images
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Misc
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Census Information:

1850: 850, Age 7
1860: 1047, Age 16
1870: Not found
1880: Washington Co., Goodson 35, Age 36
1900: Washington Co., Goodson, 97, Age 57
1910: Bristol, VA, 122, Age 66, Veteran: No
1920: DEAD
1930: DEAD

Miscellaneous Information:

Blog Post: The Doctor, the Soldier, and the Soldier's Wife

Filed pension: 1912 (BRISTOL)

Newspaper mentions:
Bickley Mills Post, 4/30/1891
Richmond Dispatch, 5/6/1891
Big Stone Gap Post, 5/8/1891
Staunton spectator, 5/13/1891
Comet (Johnson City, TN), 8/6/1891, others
Abingdon Weekly Virginian, 3/4/1892
Virginia Republican, 4/3/1914
Southwest Times and News-Review, 11/29/1915

Notes: Subject of bizarre murder plot, 1891. "Bio in Virginia and Virginians: Eminent Virginians ... History of ..., Volume 2", By Robert Alonzo Brock.

Obituary online

Military Information:

Compiled Service Record
Card 1
Private, Company G, 29th Virginia Infantry

Appears on a muster roll for Mch. 27 to Apr. 30, 1862 (Not dated)

Enlisted:
When: Mch. 27
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Gen. H. Marshal
Period: 3 yrs or war

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 2

Appears on a muster roll for May & June, 1862 (Dated June 30, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: Mar. 27
Where: Lebanon
By whom: Genl. H. Marshall
Period: 3 yrs or the war

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 3

Appears on a muster roll for June 30 to Oct. 30, 1862 (Dated Oct. 30, 1862)

Enlisted:
When: March 27, 1862
Where: Lebanon
By whom: Genl. H. Marshall
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: Maj. Fisher
To what time: June 30, 1862

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 4

Appears on a muster roll for Oct. 30, 1862 to Feb. 28, 1863 (Dated Feb. 28, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: March 27, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: Gen. H. Marshal
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: V. C. Huff
To what time: Oct. 30, 1862

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 5

Appears on a muster roll for Mch. & Apr., 1863 (Dated May 6, 1863)

Enlisted:
When: Mch. 27, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: H. Marshall
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom: V. C. Huff
To what time: Feb. 28

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 6

Appears on a muster roll for Apr. 1, 1864 made for the bounty due Oct. 1, 1864.

Enlisted:
When: March 27, 1862
Where: Lebanon, Va
By whom: H. Marshall
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 7

Appears on a muster roll for Nov. & Dec., 1864 (Dated Dec. 31, 1864)

Enlisted:
When: Mch. 27, 1862
Where: Lebanon
By whom: Gen. H. Marshal
Period: 3 yrs

Last paid:
By whom:
To what time:

Present or absent: Present
Remarks:

Card 8

Appears on a Register of
C. S. A. General Hospital,
Farmville, Virginia.

Disease: V. S. Left Thigh
Admitted: April 2, 1865

Card 9

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 2 Qr., 1864

Date of issue: June 8, 1864
Signature:

Card 10

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 3rd Qr., 1864

Date of issue: Sept. 27, 1864
Signature:

Card 11

Appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing, for 2 Qr., 1864

Date of issue: June 30, 1864
Signature:

Card 12

[$50 bounty for re-enlistment at Camp Cumbo, Russell County, April 26, 1862. Signed by name.]

Card 13

[$50 bounty for re-enlistment at Abingdon, Va. June 10, 1862. Signed by name.]

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