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Federal (USV)

Corporal

John H. Roberts

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 20 years. Enlisted April 23, 1861 at New York City and mustered in as Private, Company B, May 4, 1861, to serve two years.

On the Campaign

In his after-action report, Colonel Kimball said "I cannot close this report without calling your special attention to ... Sergeants Dews, Whitney (wounded), and Schmidt; Corporals Farrell (wounded) Cornell, and Roberts, Company B..."

The rest of the War

He mustered out with his company May 20, 1863.

References & notes

Service data from State of New York1.

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1   State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, Issue 18 (for the year 1899), pg. 743  [AotW citation 12631]