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R.S. Swords
(1816 - 1881)
Home State: New Jersey
Education: Columbia University, Class of 1834
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th New Jersey Infantry
Before Antietam
He practiced law in New York and was judge-advocate there until retiring and moving to Passaic, New Jersey in 1849. He was then magistrate of Union Township. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the 13th New Jersey Infantry in August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was with his regiment in Maryland, and may have commanded it on the march on 13-14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He resigned in 1863 and afterward resided in Newark, New Jersey. He was active in public organizations and published a number of historical papers.
References & notes
Basic information from Toombs1. Biographical details from Appleton's2. His photograph here from a CDV in the collection of the New Jersey State Archives.
Birth
07/12/1816; New York City, NY
Death
01/15/1881; Newark, NJ; burial in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx, NY
1 Toombs, Samuel, Reminiscences of the War ... the Thirteenth Regiment New Jersey Volunteers, Orange (NJ): The (Orange) Journal, 1878, pp. 15 - 21 [AotW citation 7829]
2 Fiske, John, and James Grant Wilson, editors, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, 6 vols., New York City: D. Appleton and Company, 1887-1889 [AotW citation 7874]