Richard Dobbs Spaight Hartgrove

Name	Richard Dobbs Spaight Hartgrove
Birth	1844^{82, page 46, dwelling 328, family 347}
Death	19 March 1865, Point Lookout, MD²⁶
Burial	Point Lookout, MD
Father	Benjamin Hartgrove (1804-<1860)
Mother	Mary Catherine Anthony (1806->1877)

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Notes for Richard Dobbs Spaight Hartgrove

He seems to have been named for Richard Dobbs Spaight, Sr., Governor of North Carolina from 1792-1795.

Richard served as a private in the Civil War in the 11th Regiment Co. E of the North Carolina Troops of the CSA. He served with his brother William and, like William, was wounded at both White Hall on 16 December 1862, and at Gettysburg around 1-3 July 1863. He was captured at Burgess Mill near Petersburg on 27 October 1864 and was a prisoner at Point Lookout Prison Camp in Maryland until his death of pneumonia.²⁶

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