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Federal (USV)

Sergeant

Robert L. Oliver

(1834 - aft1920)

Home State: Wisconsin

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Wisconsin Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a prosperous merchant, in 1860 he was a 26 year old living with his father, step-mother(?), and 3 brothers in Waupun, WI. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company D, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry. He was appointed Sergeant, date not found.

On the Campaign

He was slightly wounded in the head in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was appointed Sergeant Major of the Regiment on 25 November 1862. He rejected the offer of a commission on 13 April 1863 and mustered out at the end of his term of service on 1 July 1864.

After the War

By 1870 he was a blacksmith back at Waupun, WI but by 1880 and to at least 1910 was a lawyer there. In 1920 he was living with his daughter Grace (Hartgerink) and her family in Waupun.

References & notes

His service basics from Bryant1 with wound detail from a letter Lt. Hinkley wrote Oscar Gee on 21 September 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920.

He married Grace Sampey (1849-) in July 1866 and they had 3 daughters.

Birth

05/1834 in SCOTLAND

Death

aft1920

Notes

1 Bryant, Edwin Eustace, History of the Third Regiment of Wisconsin Veteran Volunteer Infantry 1861-1865, Madison: Arthur H Clark Co. for the Veteran Association of the Regiment, 1891, pp. 415 - 419 [AotW citation 15216]

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