★★★ Dunovant, Robert Gill Mills

Robert Gill Mills Dunovant
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Born: May 18, 1821

Birthplace: Chester County, South Carolina

Father: Dr. John Dunovant 1787 – 1855
(Buried: Dunovant Family Burying Ground, Chester, South Carolina)​

Mother: Margaret Sloan Quay 1797 – 1843
(Buried: Dunovant Family Burying Ground, Chester, South Carolina)​

Wife: Ellen Brooks 1829 – 1870
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Children:

Margaret Leslie Dunovant 1851 – 1859​
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

John Quay Dunovant 1853 – 1854​
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Mary Carroll Dunovant 1856 – 1857​
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Ellen Butler Dunovant 1857 – 1859​
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​
Robert Lee Dunovant 1862 – 1940​
(Buried: Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina)​

Education:

Graduated from South Carolina College​

Occupation before War:

Medical Doctor in Texas​
Planter in Chester and Edgefield, South Carolina​
Served in Mexican – American War rising to Lt.​
1855 – 1861: Adjutant and Inspector General of South Carolina Militia​

Civil War Career:

1860: Delegate to South Carolina State Secession Convention​
1861: Brigadier General of South Carolina Militia 4th​ Brigade​
1861: Brigadier General during the Bombardment of Fort Sumter​
1861: Resigned as Brigadier General when troops went in CSA​
1861 – 1862: Colonel of 12th​ South Carolina Infantry Regiment
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1861: Commander of Fort Beauregard during Battle of Port Royal​
1862: Resigned as Colonel in the Confederate Army on April 2nd​
1864 – 1865: South Carolina State Representative​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1898: Planter in Edgefield, South Carolina​
Author of a Book on the Palmetto Regiment​

Died: May 12, 1898

Place of Death: Edgefield, South Carolina

Age at time of Death: 76 years old

Burial Place:
Edgefield Village Cemetery, Edgefield, South Carolina
 
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I am surprised he went into politics so early in the war, 1862. It seems his knowledge of the medical department would have served his more humane interests and those of the confederacy much better.
Lubliner.
 
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