Claunch and Stewart Families

Civil War Service

McLure, R. W.

Battle Unit Name: 31st Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
Side: Confederacy
Company: K
Soldier's Rank In: Private
Soldier's Rank Out: Private
Alternate name:
Robert W./McClure
Film Number:
M378 ROLL 20
Plaque Number:
Notes:
General Note - Original filed under Robert W./McClure

Unit Details

Overview:
31st Infantry Regiment [including Morrison's 6th Louisiana Infantry Battalion] was organized at Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the early summer of 1862. Assigned to General Baldwin's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, the unit lost 9 killed and 16 wounded at Chickasaw Bluff and was captured defending Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it was placed in A. Thomas' Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and fought in various conflicts in Louisiana. During the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Charles H. Morrison, Lieutenant Colonel Sidney H.. Griffin, and Majors James W. Draughon and Thomas C. Humble.

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CLA0031RI

Civil War Service

Records of Louisianna Confederate Soldiers
Volume III, Book 1

McClure, Robert W., Pvt. Co. K. 31st La. Inf.
En. Monroe, La., April 14, 1862. Roll Jan
and Feb., 1863. Present. Federal ROlls of
Prisoners of War, Captured and paroled at
Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863. On List
dated Hdqrs. Allen's Brig., Shreveport, La.,
March 29, 1864. Reported in camp for ex-
change at Vienna, La., before April 1, 1864.
On Roll of Prisoners of War, C. S. A., Pa-
roled at Monroe, La., June 9, 1865. Res.
Ouchita Par., La.

Biographical Sketch

It was told that Robert was so frail when he married Elizabeth Ann that he wouldn't live more then two years. He had war injuries from the Civil War. He lived to father 14 children.

THE PARIS NEWS-20 Sept 1908- DEATH OF A GOOD MAN* An Invalid most of his life and a patient sufferer . 'Robert Wesley McClure, an old resident of Lamar County, age 65 years, died last Saturday afternoon at his home in the southwest part of the county near Harmon. The funeral took place Sunday afternoon and the remains were interred at Hickory Grove Cemetery, a mile and a half west of Noble. Rev. J. H. Ezell of Petty conducted the funeral .

The deceased had been an invalid for years and was paralized from his knees down. Before his death he became entirely helpless.

He is survived by his wife and eleven children all of whom are grown and married except one, and all of them were present at his death except one daughter who lives in New Mexico and another living in Hopkins County. The deceased was the brother-in-law of John A. Gose, deceased, at one time sheriff of Lamar County.

He was an ex-confederate soldier, having enlisted in Louisiana while he was mearly a boy. The deceased was a devout member of the Baptist church and was known among those who knew he was one of the most patient men who ever lived. Besides being paralized for a number of years before his death he was troubled with bronchial touble which he contracted during the Civil War and from which he suffered over forty years. Despite his long afflection the deceased managed during his life time to make a good living and he leaves his widow in her declining years in comfortable circumstances.

I received this obit from Altha Alder Feb. 2000. mpt

Robert Wesley served in the Civil War. (Conf. Civil War Records of Robert Wesley McClure Co. K, Headquarters Allen's Brigade Shreveport, LA 20 May 1864-Residence Quchita Parish, LA-He joined 26 May 1862 for 3 years @ Monroe, LA at age 18. Capt Chas. H. Morrison Co. 31st. Reg. La. Inf.- Co. K, 31st. Reg. La. Infantry, Commanded by F J Hendley. POW New Orleans from 26 May 1865, paroled @ Monroe, LA 9 June 1865- POW Roll 4 July 1863 paroled at Vicksburg, MS 31 Reg. LA Infantry.-Information from his Civil War Records, mpt.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18825891/robert-wesley-mcclure

Biographical Sketch

Robert Wesley McClure

Enlisted April 14, 1862 in Monroe, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana as a private, Company K, 31st Regiment Louisiana Infantry.

During the Siege of Vicksburg, May-July 1863, this Regiment was under the command of Lt. Col. James W. Draughton, as a part of Baldwin's Brigade, and in Major General M. L. SMith's Division.

When Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863, Robert Wesley was captured and paroled.

After the war, he moved to Lamar County, Texas, where he married Elizabeth Ann Gose and fathered fourteen children. He died September 19, 1908

Summary by Mary Louise Claunch