Robert Randolph Hutchinson

   Cause of his death was something to do with his brain, contributory prostate procedure.

  General Notes:

(Taken from the encylopedia of Missouri History) A banker and fiancier.

He was a civil war soldier in the confederate army, 2nd lt.

Colonel, C.S.A. At Camp Jackson in May 1861, Hutchinson served as first lieutenant in Company G of the 2d Regiment, Missouri Volunteer Militia. He then joined the 1st Missouri Infantry, C.S.A., then organizing at Memphis, Tennessee, as Colonel John Bowen's assistant adjutant general. After Bowen's death, Hutchinson transferred to the Army of Northern Virginia where he took a similar position under General Robert Rodes. He fought in all the army's battles until his capture at the battle of Cedar Creek. After his release as a prisoner, he returned to St. Louis. Prohibited from serving as a lawyer in Missouri by the postwar administration, he started a new career as a banker, working his way from cashier to president of the Mechanics Bank of St. Louis.


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The following taken from the website: Confederate Veteran

MAJ. ROBERT RANDOLPH HUTCHINSON.

Robert Randolph Hutchinson was born in Petersburg, Va., August 28, 1837, the son of Rev. E. Carter Hutchinson and Lucy Burwell Randolph. He was educated at the University of Virginia, and then went to the University of Berlin, Germany. He was admitted to the bar in St. Louis, Mo., but the war broke out about that time, and he became one of the Mis souri Minute Men, the first organization of Southern sympathizers in Missouri, which came into existence in 1860. He aided in raising a company of the 2d Infantry Regiment of the Missouri State Guards, which went into camp at Lindell's Grove on May 3, 1861. This camp became known as Camp Jackson, and Major Hutchinson was serving as first lieutenant of a company at the time the camp was captured. He soon afterwards went to Memphis, Tenn., where he enlisted in the 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment. Commissioned a lieutenant at the beginning of his military career, he was soon made adjutant of his regiment, then promoted to major and assistant adjutant general of Bowen's Brigade, and later of the division. He was in active service in the field thereafter throughout the war, participating in most of the engagements fought in Mississippi up to the time of the capture of Vicksburg. After the surrender at Vicksburg, he was adjutant general of paroled prisoners at Demopolis, Ala., until returned to the Confederate service through an exchange of prisoners.

In the fall of 1863 he joined the Army of Northern Virginia as assistant adjutant general of the division commanded by Gen. Robert E. Rodes, which constituted a part of Stonewall Jackson's corps. He was promoted to the rank of major, and subsequently to that of lieutenant colonel, serving continuously in the field and participating in all the battles of the campaign, from the Wilderness to Richmond, until captured at the battle of Cedar Creek, in Virginia, in the fall of 1864. He was held prisoner at Fort Delaware until June, 1865, when he was released on parole and went to St. Louis. Under the restrictive provisions of the Drake Constitution, then in force in Missouri, those who had borne arms against the Union or who had sympathized with, aided, or encouraged the Southern Confederacy were debarred from engaging in any profession. This disability turned Major Hutchinson temporarily away from the law, his chosen profession, and he entered the banking business, from which he retired as President of the Mechanics National Bank of St. Louis, Mo., in 1906,

Major Hutchinson married Miss Mary Mitchell, daughter of Col. D. D. Mitchell, in 1865, three days after his release from prison. Their engagement had existed during the four years he was in the war, a period of total separation excepting a visit made in 1865 by Miss Mitchell to Fort Delaware by special permission of President Lincoln There were eight children of this union, all of whom are living. Major Hutchinson died November 21,1910.

(The "War Records" give a singular experience of Major Hutchinson's. On March 9, 1865, B. Gratz Brown, United States Senator from Missouri, wrote Colonel Hoffman, commissary general of prisoners, that Major Hutchinson was on General Ramseur's staff when the general was wounded and captured. General Ramseur dying soon after this, Major Hutchinson was paroled to take charge of his body and convey it to Richmond. Upon reaching General Grant's lines the parole was disregarded, and he was ordered back to Washington and put into the Old Capitol Prison, General Hoffman replied to Senator Brown that Lieutenant General Grant had the right to recall the parole to Major Hutchinson, so he was undoubtedly held until the war ended. EDITOR VETERAN.)

Robert married Mary S. Mitchell Hutchinson, daughter of Colonel David Dawson Mitchell and Martha Eliza Berry, on 7 Jun 1865 in St. Louis Missouri. (Mary S. Mitchell Hutchinson was born on 13 Dec 1841 in Missouri and died on 2 Dec 1903 in St. Louis bellefontaine cemetery.). The cause of her death was chronic nephritis (kidney inflamation).