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Federal (USV)

Captain

Robert Langner

Home State: New York

Command Billet: Battery Commander

Branch of Service: Artillery

Unit: 1st Battalion New York Light Artillery, Battery C

Before Antietam

Probably a recent immigrant from Prussia, he was appointed First Lieutenant of Battery C, First Battalion, New York Light Artillery, date not given. He transferred and mustered as Captain of Battery D (later the 32nd Independent Battery) on 20 July 1862, but returned to Battery C as its Captain on 12 August 1862.

On the Campaign

He commanded the battery in Maryland.

The rest of the War

His battery was redesignated the 31st Independent Battery on 5 March 1863, but he was discharged for disability (or, less likely, dismissed for being absent without leave) on 25 March 1863.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General1 and a Muster Roll abstract, online from fold3.

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 [AotW citation 26178]

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