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 | |  | | Robert Donnell Bone (1832-1892) married Griselda Minerva Burk (1841-1912).
On November 25, 1861, Dr. Bone was appointed to serve as Assistant Surgeon of the 12th Texas Volunteer Infantry,
Col. Overton Young's Regiment at Camp Hebert, Hempstead, Austin County, Texas. He felt it was his duty to serve the cause of the
Confederacy and eagerly attended his post. As revealed in letters exchanged with his wife while on active duty in the Civil War, it soon
became clear that he would have to contend with inadequate provisions, boring camp routine and confusing orders. “The Fever,” dysentery,
measles and exposure were Dr. Bone's patients' main medical problems; his regiment was not involved in any serious fighting. When he
resigned his commission on March 7, 1863, in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, he went back to Douglass, Texas to practice medicine. | |  | |  |
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