Capt. Robert M. (Mitchell?) Black

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Husband Capt. Robert M. (Mitchell?) Black ¹

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            AKA: Robert J. M. Mitchell 2
           Born: 1837 - Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1 Sep 1864 - Jonesboro, Clayton Co, GA
         Buried:  - Rocky Springs Cemetery, Marion Twp, Butler Co, PA

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         Father: Squire William Black (1810-1891) 1 3 4 5
         Mother: Isabella Mitchell (1817-Aft 1851) 1 3 6

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General Notes: Husband - Capt. Robert M. (Mitchell?) Black

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He was mustered into the service of the United States, as Captain of Company D, Seventy-eighth Illinois Infantry, July 15, 1862. He was engaged in the battles of Stone River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Mission Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Rocky Faced Ridge, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and the score or more of other battles fought during the Atlanta campaign, and was killed at Jonesboro, Georgia, September 1, 1864, while leading his regiment (of which he was then in command) in a charge upon the enemy's works. His regiment formed part of the Second Brigade, Second Division, Fourteenth Army Corps. [HBC 1883, 431]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 436.

2 Karen S. Golden Rodgers, The Mitchell Family 1772 - 1989 (Self-published, 1990), Pg 5.

3 James A. McKee, 20th Century History of Butler and Butler County, Pa., and Representative Citizens (Chicago, IL: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Co., 1909), Pg 1282.

4 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 1305.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 35.

6 Karen S. Golden Rodgers, The Mitchell Family 1772 - 1989 (Self-published, 1990), Pg 3.