Robert Henry Spindle attended R-MC in 1841-42 along with his brother, James Mortimer Spindle. Spindle was an attorney in the small town of Washington in Rappahannock County, VA, in the early 1850s and residing in a hotel operated by the Dear family, whose young son, Charles Henry Dear, would attend R-MC during the war. In 1854, he was living in Rockingham County, VA and was appointed appointed as the postmaster at Waverlie. The 1860 census lists him as a farmer in Rockingham County.
Spindle served as a private in Co. G of the 3rd VA Cavalry. He was paroled as a prisoner of war on April 25, 1865. In July 1865, he wrote a very eloquent letter addressed to President Andrew Johnson requesting a special pardon in which he indicates he was conscripted into the army and served a little over 5 months.
By 1880, he was living in a different Washington, this time in Washington, D. C., and practicing law. Spindle died in 1889 and is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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