Talk:Robert H. Chilton

Andersonville
In Andersonville, his 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel, author MacKinlay Kantor quotes from a letter by Robert Hall Chilton, sent to his line superior, the Secretary of War, on August 18, 1864. Chilton opines as follows: "The condition of the prison at Andersonville is a reproach to us as a nation." The time sequence suggests that, from Richmond, he had ordered photographic documentation of the conditions reported to him. --Edward Chilton —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.49.241 (talk) 14:58, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Mr. Chilton meet Mr. Chilton
General Robert E. Lee first met Robert H. Chilton circa 1845, when the latter was a Paymaster in Texas. That is among the reasons why R.E.L. chose him as a field aide-de-camp.

In 1861, General Robert E. Lee first met William Parish Chilton in Richmond. Representing Montgomery County in the Confederate Congress, former Ala. Chief Justice Wm. P. Chilton was assigned oversight of all contracts for war materials. He had to "sign off" that the government had gotten what it paid for. General Lee became aware that the two Chilton men of his acquaintance did not know each other. Once that was corrected, Robert and William discovered they were third cousins. --Edward Chilton

Mrs. Robert Hall Chilton
Laura Ann Thomson Mason was a younger sister to Stevens T. Mason, the first governor of the State of Michigan, and the youngest governor in U.S. history. Stevens died 2 years before his sister's nuptials. --Edward Chilton — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.82.56.107 (talk) 08:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC)

Lost Order
He did not pen the famous Lost Order during the Maryland Campaign.
 * A disembodied statement that needs qualifying. The order is supposed to have been signed by the Adjutant-General (or possibly the Assistant Adjutant-General) and the signature was recognized by a Union officer on McClellan's staff. Valetude (talk) 04:20, 22 November 2017 (UTC)


 * That's right... They say the order was not pen... but prof. James McPherson wrote that Chilton wrote that order ("If the Lost order hadn't been lost" in What ifs of American History) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nobru07 (talk • contribs) 14:19, 5 March 2019 (UTC)