Robert Bell
Name: Robert Bell
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 21st PA Cav., 182nd Regt.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Franklin County, PA
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: B
Rank at End of Service: Major
Notes:
Enlisted at Chambersburg, PA; Born in Adams Co.; Promotions: From Capt. To Maj. 04-01-1864; Sick at Div. Hosp. 07-18-1864; Request for leave to go home to Gettysburg because he is acting executor and guardian for minor children and needs to attend orphan's court session in early March.
Source(s):
Soldiers’ Records for Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on the website “Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War,” Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/dossiers).
