McMenamin, Robert:
1st CA (later 71st PA), Co. "H";
(Appears on marker as "R M McMonan",)
captured at Ball's Bluff 21 OCT 1861;
buried 19 DEC 1861
"On the 17th of December, the writer was informed of the serious illness of a private in his company - Robert McMennamin [sic] of Philadelphia,-then in the hospital.... Resolved to see him, and ignoring prison rules and persons, the writer watched the street and hailed the commandant through the bars; he came, listened and granted the urgent demand.... As the writer bent over him and received his dying words, -
'Lieutenant, see to my mother and little children,'
-...he realized the unutterable horror of war.... He died far from home and friends, and we know not where he sleeps his last sleep."
-Lt. William C. Harris, "Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Balls' Bluff Prisoner." Philadelphia: Geo. W. Childs, 1862.
His remains were disinterred and moved to Richmond National Cemetery in 1866, where they rest under an "Unknown" marker. See his burial memorial here. His name appears on a commemorative marker at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, as shown here.
1st CA (later 71st PA), Co. "H";
(Appears on marker as "R M McMonan",)
captured at Ball's Bluff 21 OCT 1861;
buried 19 DEC 1861
"On the 17th of December, the writer was informed of the serious illness of a private in his company - Robert McMennamin [sic] of Philadelphia,-then in the hospital.... Resolved to see him, and ignoring prison rules and persons, the writer watched the street and hailed the commandant through the bars; he came, listened and granted the urgent demand.... As the writer bent over him and received his dying words, -
'Lieutenant, see to my mother and little children,'
-...he realized the unutterable horror of war.... He died far from home and friends, and we know not where he sleeps his last sleep."
-Lt. William C. Harris, "Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Balls' Bluff Prisoner." Philadelphia: Geo. W. Childs, 1862.
His remains were disinterred and moved to Richmond National Cemetery in 1866, where they rest under an "Unknown" marker. See his burial memorial here. His name appears on a commemorative marker at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, as shown here.
McMenamin, Robert:
1st CA (later 71st PA), Co. "H";
(Appears on marker as "R M McMonan",)
captured at Ball's Bluff 21 OCT 1861;
buried 19 DEC 1861
"On the 17th of December, the writer was informed of the serious illness of a private in his company - Robert McMennamin [sic] of Philadelphia,-then in the hospital.... Resolved to see him, and ignoring prison rules and persons, the writer watched the street and hailed the commandant through the bars; he came, listened and granted the urgent demand.... As the writer bent over him and received his dying words, -
'Lieutenant, see to my mother and little children,'
-...he realized the unutterable horror of war.... He died far from home and friends, and we know not where he sleeps his last sleep."
-Lt. William C. Harris, "Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Balls' Bluff Prisoner." Philadelphia: Geo. W. Childs, 1862.
His remains were disinterred and moved to Richmond National Cemetery in 1866, where they rest under an "Unknown" marker. See his burial memorial here. His name appears on a commemorative marker at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, as shown here.
1st CA (later 71st PA), Co. "H";
(Appears on marker as "R M McMonan",)
captured at Ball's Bluff 21 OCT 1861;
buried 19 DEC 1861
"On the 17th of December, the writer was informed of the serious illness of a private in his company - Robert McMennamin [sic] of Philadelphia,-then in the hospital.... Resolved to see him, and ignoring prison rules and persons, the writer watched the street and hailed the commandant through the bars; he came, listened and granted the urgent demand.... As the writer bent over him and received his dying words, -
'Lieutenant, see to my mother and little children,'
-...he realized the unutterable horror of war.... He died far from home and friends, and we know not where he sleeps his last sleep."
-Lt. William C. Harris, "Prison Life in the Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond. By a Balls' Bluff Prisoner." Philadelphia: Geo. W. Childs, 1862.
His remains were disinterred and moved to Richmond National Cemetery in 1866, where they rest under an "Unknown" marker. See his burial memorial here. His name appears on a commemorative marker at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, as shown here.
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