JOHNSEY & WALTER ROBERTS

Company "A" 9th West Virginia Infantry

Researched & Compiled by Linda Fluharty

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.”

WALTER S. ROBERTS Service Record: Born Marshall County, Va.; age 27; farmer; enlisted & mustered in Feb. 25, 1864 at Charleston. Credited to Wood County 1st Cong. Dist., West Va. “Admitted to Genl. Hospl. Sandy Hook, Md. Aug. 13, 1864 & was transferred Aug. 15, 1864; admitted to Camden St. Genl. Hospl. Baltimore, Md., Aug. 16, 1864, and died in that Hospl. Aug. 28, 1864, of Diarrhea & Typhoid Fever.” - W.Va. Adj. Gen. record: “Enrolled at Charleston, W.Va.; age 27; mustered in at Charleston Feb. 25, 1864. Farmer, born Marshall County, W.Va. Recruit died of disease Sept. 19, 1864.”

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.

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