{⋆★⋆} BG Robertson, Jerome B.

Jerome Bonaparte Robertson​

Born: March 14, 1815

Birth Place: Woodford County, Kentucky

Father: Cornelius Robertson 1770 – Unknown

(Buried: Old Independence Cemetery, Independence, Texas)​

Mother: Clorissa Hill Keech 1781 – 1865

(Buried: Old Independence Cemetery, Independence, Texas)​

1st​ Wife: Mary Elizabeth Cummins 1816 – 1868

(Buried: Old Independence CemeteryIndependenceTexas)​

2nd​ Wife: Hattie Hendley Hook

Children:

Felix Huston Robertson 1839 – 1928​

(Buried: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas)​

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Julia Robertson Nott 1843 – 1885​

(Buried: Old Independence Cemetery, Independence, Texas)​

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Henry Bell Robertson 1858 – 1860​

(Buried: Old Independence Cemetery, Independence, Texas)​

Education:

1835: Graduated from Transylvania University​

Occupation before War:

1836 – 1837: Served in the Texas Army rising to Captain​

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1837 – 1861: Medical Doctor in Washington on the Brazos, Texas​

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Coroner, Mayor, and Postmaster for Washington on the Brazos, Texas​

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Texas State Representative​

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Texas State Senator​

Civil War Career:

1861: Delegate to the Texas State Secession Convention​

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1861: Captain of 5th​ Texas Infantry Regiment​

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1861 – 1862: Lt. Colonel of 5th​ Texas Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Colonel of 5th​ Texas Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Became exhausted during the Battle of South Mountain​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Antietam, Maryland​

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1862: Wounded in the Shoulder during Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia​

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1863 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1863: Wounded above the right knee during the Battle of Gettysburg​

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1863: Brigade Commander during the Battle of Chickamuga, Georgia​

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1864 – 1865: Commander of Texas State Reserve Forces​

Occupation after War:

Medical Doctor in Independence, Texas​

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Texas State Superintendent of Immigration Bureau​

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Passenger & Emigration Agent for Houston & Texas Central Railroad​

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Organizer and President of Hood's Texas Brigade Association​

Died: January 7, 1890

Place of Death: Waco, Texas

Age at time of Death: 74 years old

Cause of Death: Cancer

Burial Place: Oakwood Cemetery, Waco, Texas

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Brig. General Jerome B. Robertson! Salutes remembering General Robertson on his birthday.

 

[ErnieMac]

Robertson commanded Hood's Texas Brigade after Hood was promoted. He was removed (along with McLaws and Law) from that command by Longstreet during the dispute over who would take command of Hood's former division.

 

[rpkennedy]

Interestingly, his son, Felix H. Robertson was one of the temporary brigadier generals appointed in 1864. William C. Davis has a good quote about Felix Robertson:

Perjurer, sycophant, quite probably a murderer, Felix Robertson of Texas was almost without doubt the most reprehensible man in either army to wear the uniform of a general. Only by the narrowest of margins did he escape being tried by his own government for what later generations would call war crimes.

Ryan

 

[Stone in the wall]

Robertson commanded Hood's Texas Brigade after Hood was promoted. He was removed (along with McLaws and Law) from that command by Longstreet during the dispute over who would take command of Hood's former division.

Is it at this time Micah Jenkens takes command of the division, or when Fields takes command?

 

[ErnieMac]

Is it at this time Micah Jenkens takes command of the division, or when Fields takes command?

Longstreet assigned Jenkins to command at the time. Robertson favored Law and opposed the move which was the main reason for his reassignment. It wasn't until February 1864 that Field took the command.

 

[USS ALASKA]

3rd Arkansas at Gettysburg, under Brig. Gen. J.B. Robertson

"For Ninety Nine Years or the War" The Story of the 3rd Arkansas at Gettysburg by Maurial P. Joslyn

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mauriel P. Joslyn of Sparta, Georgia, received her B.A. in History from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1978. She has participated in living history events for nearly twenty years and is a freelance writer on historical topics, mostly the War Between the States. Her first book is a biography of the Immortal Six Hundred, entitled Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the Union Policy of Retaliation. Her second book: Charlotte's Boys: The Wartime Correspondence of the Branch Family of Savannah, is due to be released in April.

It was raining on June 26. 1863, the day Confederate Brig. Gen. Jerome B. Robertson's brigade crossed the Potomac River at Williamsport, Maryland. It was a steady drizzle that had commenced the day before falling on the already soaked Southerners slogging through the slippery roads leading to their destiny. With Robertson's three regiments of lean, tanned Texans crossed a fourth regiment who had the distinction of being the only Arkansas troops in the Army of Northern Virginia.' They were considered misfits as much by themselves as by the Texans with whom they fought. Six months earlier, their colonel had requested the regiment be sent back to Arkansas. "This regiment has served hard and faithfully in the war, but it has now almost lost its identity," wrote Vannoy H. Manning.

Full article can be read here - https://web.archive.org/web/2004042...icles.cgi?cat=2&issue=14&article=5&userid=$id

Cheers,
USS ALASKA

 

[Pollaco]

Robertson commanded Hood's Texas Brigade after Hood was promoted. He was removed (along with McLaws and Law) from that command by Longstreet during the dispute over who would take command of Hood's former division.

Law and McLaws were probably removed due to the "dispute ". Robertson was removed after the battle of Wauhatchie because he was thought to be incompetent by Longstreet. He was reinstated by Bragg but however was again removed from command after Bean's station.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

The men in Hood's Texas Brigade that Robertson led, in recognition of the concern that Robertson showed for them, gave him the nickname of 'Aunt Pollie'.

 

[danny]

By the end of Feb 1865, Robertson asked to be assigned once again to a field command. In March he was given a Bgde of "three Regts of dismtd Cav & one of Infy." However, by the time his command was official, most of the CS armies had already surrendered

 

[ErnieMac]

Law and McLaws were probably removed due to the "dispute ". Robertson was removed after the battle of Wauhatchie because he was thought to be incompetent by Longstreet. He was reinstated by Bragg but however was again removed from command after Bean's station.

It appears to be some of both. Hood was complaining of Robertson's lack of cooperation as far back as Chickamauga. After Wauhatchie Longstreet brought complaints about Robertson to Bragg and Robertson was relieved pending inquiry. Robertson began furnishing evidence in his defense that basically stated he obeyed the orders he was given. Robertson was under Law's command at the time. When Longstreet was ordered to Knoxville Robertson was restored to command.

After the fight at Bean's Station Jenkins ordered Robertson to pursue the retreating Federals. Robertson complained about lack of food and supplies and refused to move without written orders. Jenkins filed charges accusing Robertson of expressing disheartening views about the success of the campaign. Robertson presented his evidence to the same board that heard testimony against McLaws. The board seems to have acquitted Robertson of improper motives but disapproved his conduct and sentenced him to be reprimanded. Shortly afterward Robertson returned to Texas and John Gregg took command of the Texas Brigade.