Sunny South Guards

Military Flag Presentation Ceremony

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.

 

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