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Federal (USV)

Private

Robert G. Conley

(1841 - 1899)

Home State: Indiana

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 19th Indiana Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was an 18 year old gardener living with his parents and 5 younger siblings in Richmond, Wayne County, IN. He enlisted and mustered on 29 July 1861 as a Private in Company B, 19th Indiana Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was captured in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not given, and mustered out on 22 March 1865.

After the War

In 1870 he was a hardware dealer back in Richmond, IN and was a machinist there by 1880. He began receiving a veterans' pension for disability in June 1880.

References & notes

Service basics from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Ella Benton (1845-1918) by 1870, and they had at least 3 sons.

Birth

1841 in IN

Death

07/19/1899; burial in Earlham Cemetery, Richmond, IN

Notes

1 State of Indiana, Adjutant General's Office, and William H.H. Terrell, Adjutant General, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, 8 volumes, Indianapolis: (various) State Printers, 1865-1869, Vol. 4, p. 393 [AotW citation 33316]

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