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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert F. Greenough

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Massachusetts

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 29th Massachusetts Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 21 year old paper hanger and lived with his parents and 5 siblings in Charlestown, MA. He enlisted there on 5 November 1861 and mustered as Corporal, Company H, 29th Massachusetts Infantry on 23 December. He was reduced in rank to Private for "incapacity" on 20 February 1862.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from Soldiers, Sailors and Marines 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1839; Portsmouth, NH

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in North Cemetery, Portsmouth, NH

Notes

1 Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Adjutant General, Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines in the Civil War, 8 Vols, Norwood (MA): Norwood Press, 1931-35, Vol. 3, pg. 317 [AotW citation 20133]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29994]

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