ROLL OF HONOR
The following Florida Veteran is being honored in this project:
PRIVATE ROBERT P. LEWIS - POW
Age at enlistment: 22
Born: 1839 in Florida
Died: unknown
Married: unknown
Final Resting Place: unknown
Children: unknown
Appears on the 1860 US Census of Hillsborough County as a farm laborer.
Enlisted
11 June, 1861 at Tampa for twelve mos.
He was captured 25 November 1863 at Missionary
Ridge and
sent to Camp Morton POW Camp. He was exchanged
at Point Lookout, MD in February 1864 then
hospitalized
in Richmond in March 1865.
There is no record that Pvt. Lewis received a Florida Confederate Veteran's Pension.
No further information known about Pvt. Kelly.