ROLL OF HONOR
The following Florida Veteran is being honored in this project:
PRIVATE ROBERT F. FLETCHER -
POW - DIED
Age at enlistment: 28
Born: abt. 1834 in Florida
Parents: unknown
Died: September 25, 1863
Final Resting Place: unknown
Married: unknown
Children:
unknown
Appears on US Census of Monroe Co. FL Census in 1860 as a clerk. Father was a physician.
Enlisted
4/28/62 in Duval Co. for twelve months. He was
captured at Murfreesboro 1/5/63.
Yankees first
confined him in a military prison at Louisville,
Kentucky, before sending him to Camp Butler POW
Camp,
Illinois on 3/11/1063. He was exchange in
April 1863, but returned and died in service on
9/25/63.
He had served extra duty as a hospital steward.
Pvt. Fletcher did not survive to receive a Florida Confederate Veteran's Pension.