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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert R. Topping

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 9th New York Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18 years. Enlisted April 23,1861 at New York City; mustered in as Private, Company A on May 4, 1861, to serve two years.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was paroled and afterwards exchanged, but never reported to his Company. There is no further military record.

References & notes

Basic information from State of New York1.

Birth

c. 1843

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), pp. 760 - 770  [AotW citation 12760]