Robert Paxton Trabue

Birth Date

1824-01-01

Death Date

1863-02-12

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mississippi attorney and soldier. Columbia, Kentucky, native. Son of Daniel Trabue, Jr. and Mary Paxton Trabue. Married to Hibernia Inge Trabue. Studied law with Judge Zachariah Wheat of Columbia and Thomas B. Monroe, Sr. of Frankfort, Kentucky. Practiced law in Columbia. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Relocated to Mississippi. Practiced law in Mississippi and Louisiana. Colonel of the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Confederate) from September 1861 to February 1863. Commanded the First Kentucky Brigade at the Battle of Shiloh. Died of disease in Richmond, Virginia, on February 12, 1863.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 142-143. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0104. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 267. Edwin Porter Thompson, History of the Orphan Brigade (Louisville: Lewis N. Thompson, 1898), 403-407. Find A Grave, "Robert Paxton Trabue (1824-1863)," Memorial #6270813, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6270813/robert-paxton-trabue (accessed January 23, 2018).

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