Soldier: Robert T. Barge
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: C
Age: 26
Date Entering Service: August 5, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Transferred to Company B on November 18, 1864, mustered out with company on July 7, 1865 at Mobile, Alabama.
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluffs, Miss. Dec. 28-29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Ark. Jan. 11, 1863
Vicksburg, Miss. May 18-July 4, 1863
Jackson, Miss. July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, La. Nov. 3, 1863
Sabine Cross Roads, La. April 8, 1864
Moneti’s Bluff, La. April 23, 1864
Forts Gains and Morgan, La. Aug. 5-23, 1864
Spanish Fort, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Fort Blakely, Ala. April 9, 1865
Mobile, Ala. March 26-April 12, 1865
Whistler’s Station, Ala. April 13, 1865
Other interesting information discovered:
Robert Barge was a brother to Slocum Barge. He lived in Cardington until sometime in the 1870’s. By 1880 he was living in Way, Indiana, and had lived in Kansas for a while. He died in North Judson, Indiana.
Date of Death: July 18, 1904 Place of burial: Pioneer Cemetery, North Judson, Ind.
Adopted By: In memory of Cecil and Phyllis Haycook
Researcher: Patrick Drouhard
