Robert Ballard Fontaine, student 1859-1860

Fontaine (variantly spelled Fontain, Fountain and Fountaine) enlisted as a private in Co. D of the 38th VA Infantry on October 14, 1864. He was captured on April 1, 1865 at White Oak Road, VA and sent on April 5, 1865 from City Point, VA to the prison camp at Point Lookout, MD. The hospital records indicate Fontaine died there of chronic diarrhea on May 22, 1865 and was buried in the prisoner of war graveyard. In 1870, the remains from the two prisoner graveyards were moved and placed in a mass grave at Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery.