Confederate Biography:  JEROME B. ROBERTSON 

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p 86

Jerome B. Robertson, of Waco, was born in Woodford county, Kentucky, 
March 14, 1815, the son of Cornelius Robertson a native of Maryland 
and soldier of the Rovolutionary army in 1776.  He received his 
academic education in Owensboro, and 1835 was graduated in medicine 
from Transylvania University.  Responsive to the call of the Republic 
of Texas in 1836 he raised and was elected captain of a company of 
Kentucky volunteers and started for the struggling little nation, 
arriving a few weeks after the battle of San Jancito, and was assigned 
to the Army of the the Southwest under Gen. Thos. J. Rusk, serving 
until the muster out in June 1837.  He then settled in Washington on 
the Brazos engaging in the practice of medicine and in farming.  He 
was mayor of his town 1839-40 and postmaster the following three years, 
and in 1947-48 was a representative in the second Texas Legislature.  
In 1849 he ws elected State Senator. In the meantime he was in 1838
captain of a company in the Indian campaign up the Navasota, and from 
1839 to 1843 was in at least two campaigns, yearly, against the Indians 
and Mexicans including the Vasques, Wohl and Somervell campaigns in 
which he commanded two regiments.  He was a member of the Secession 
Convention in 1861 and then was chosen captain of a company and ordered 
to Virginia, where, upon its organizatiion, he was chosen lieuteenant-
colonel of the 5th Texas Infantry, and in March 1862 promoted to be
Colonel.  After the battle of Sharpsburg in September he was promoted
Brigadier-General and succeeded Gen. John B. Hood in command of his 
famous brigade. He served under Robt. E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Hood, 
Longstreet and Gordon, participating in about fourty battles.  At 
Gaines Mill he was wounded in the right shoulder; at the second 
Manassas in the groin; and at Gettysburg in the right knee.  After the 
war he lived in Independece, Texas, removing in 1879 to Waco where he
died several years later.  He was married at Independence, May 4, 1838, 
to Miss Mary E. Cummins.  Their son, Felix H. Robertson, born at 
Washington, in the Republic of Texas, March 9, 1839, was educated in 
the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, commanded a gun as lieutenant 
at the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and served through the entire war, 
being promoted through all the grades until he became brigadier-general 
of cavalry.  He is a prominent lawyer in Waco, and so is his son Felix 
D. Robertson.