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O'N. W. Robinson
(1824 - 1864)
Home State: Maine
Education: Bowdoin College, Class of 1845
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Before Antietam
He studied law and had a prosperous practice in Bethel, ME by 1860. On 21 December 1861 at age 37 he enrolled and was mustered as Captain of the 4th Battery, Maine Light Artillery in Augusta, ME.
On the Campaign
He commanded his battery in Maryland.
The rest of the War
In 1864 he was promoted to Major and Chief of Artillery, 2nd Army Corps. In July 1864 he was home on recruiting duty due to ill health, and died on his 40th birthday at his father's home in Bethel, ME.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General1 and the Card File.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and a bio sketch in Nehemiah Cleaveland's History of Bowdoin College (1882). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a group photo (including combat artist Alfred Waud) at the Library of Congress.
Birth
07/17/1824; Waterford, ME
Death
07/17/1864; Waterford, ME; burial in Woodland Cemetery, Bethel, ME
1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 29508]