Civil War Pension File – Robert Reid Burchfield , Co. E, 63rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Download)

American Civil War Veterans Pension PDF file available thanks to Kerri Fawcett.

These Civil War pension records were obtained from the U.S. National Archives and are public domain government documents. They are shared here freely for historical and genealogical research.

Robert Reid Burchfield

Birth 12 FEB 1830 - Saegertown, Crawford, Pennsylvania, USA

Son of Nancy McGill Burchfield and John Burchfield.

Grandson of Anna Marie Baird and Patrick McGill.

Robert Reid Burchfield married Emeline Isabel Austin and had 3 children.

Draft/Muster Sept 8,1863.

Death 31 Jan 1865 - Florence, South Carolina The Florence Stockade Military Prison at Florence, South Carolina operated from September 1864 through February 1865; during this time, as many as 18,000 Union soldiers were imprisoned there, about 2,800 of whom died. Most were buried in unmarked trenches in what would become the Florence National Cemetery after the war.