Bruce Vail
Captain
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2015
Looking for help in finding any evidence of Confederate service by Robert Davison Eborn, born Oct. 6, 1824 in Beaufort County, NC, and died Jan. 23, 1900, also in Beaufort County.
He was a little old to be an army volunteer in 1861, but not too old for conscription in the latter half of the war. He apparently was a prosperous farmer, so he may have hired a substitute, or may have held a civil post that exempted him from army service.
He lived in the area of eastern North Carolina that was partially occupied by Federal troops in 1862, so there is some possibility that he was a Unionist and/or fought on the Union side.
He was a little old to be an army volunteer in 1861, but not too old for conscription in the latter half of the war. He apparently was a prosperous farmer, so he may have hired a substitute, or may have held a civil post that exempted him from army service.
He lived in the area of eastern North Carolina that was partially occupied by Federal troops in 1862, so there is some possibility that he was a Unionist and/or fought on the Union side.