Robert Gilleland

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Husband Robert Gilleland ¹

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         Father: John Gilleland (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Selina Thompson (      -Bef 1895) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Gilleland

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He was a soldier of the Union army in the Civil War; he was one of the first to enlist in Company D, Eleventh Regiment Pennsylvania Reserves, becoming a member of that body of troops in 1861; he was wounded in the seven days' fight before Richmond, a ball entering his right leg, and was afterward taken prisoner, only to be subsequently released; returning to his home with the bullet in his leg, his surgeon having failed to remove it, he there remained until General Lee's northern invasion, when he and his brother, Wilson A., enlisted in the emergency troops raised on that occasion for state defence, after which both became members of Company D, Eleventh Regiment, to which Robert Gilleland had previously belonged; in the fighting before Petersburg, Robert Gilleland was once more wounded in the right leg, being again taken prisoner and subsequently discharged; the leg that had twice received Confederate bullets had previously sustained accident in his youth through the falling of a heavy tree limb, which had caused a white swelling that never subsided.

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1732.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1731.