Frederick Robinson

Giving his age as 21 (he was 17), a farmer, he enlisted in New York as a Private in Battery A, 4th United States Artillery on 19 September 1849 and was discharged at Fort Brady, MI on 19 September 1854 at the end of his term. He was a school teacher in Illinois for about four years, then enlisted again, on 18 August 1858, in Cornwall, VT in the US Dragoons. He was transferred to Battery D, 5th US Artillery and was a Sergeant by September 1862.

He was with his battery at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed 2nd Lieutenant, 5th US Artillery on 30 October 1862 and fought with his battery to the end of the war; he was wounded while commanding the left section of Battery M, 5th US at Cedar Creek, VA in September 1864. He was honored by brevets to First Lieutenant and Captain, USA for his war service.

He was promoted to First Lieutenant on 28 July 1866. In 1874 he was assigned as instructor military science at the University of Vermont. He was on sick leave by February 1882 (probably in Savannah, GA) and back with his battery at Fort Schuyler, NY by May, but died in November of that year.

His service from the Registers,1 Heitman,2 and Henry.3 Personal details from family genealogists and The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette (1882). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary D Nauman (1839-1920).

03/22/1832; Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, IRELAND

11/01/1882; Lancaster, PA; burial in Lancaster Cemetery, Lancaster, PA