Soldier: Robert Harbert
Regiment: 3rd OVI
Company: I
Age: 21
Date Entering Service: 6/15/1861
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Discharged at Camp Dennison on 3/16/1864 with surgeon’s certificate of disability
Battles in which he fought:
Battle of Rich Mountain, West Virginia 7/6/1861
Battle of Elkwater, West Virginia 7/11/1861
Battle of Bridgeport, Alabama 4/29/1862
Battle of Perryville, Kentucky 10/8/1862
Battle of Stones River, Tennessee 12/31/1862
Other interesting information discovered:
Robert Harbert was born in the year 1837. The 1850 census shows that he lived in Morrow County at age 13. Robert married Margaret Ellen Chilcote in Morrow County 1861. Robert and his wife appear to have moved to the State of Illinois after they married. Robert collected an invalids pension on 4/1/1864. Margaret collected a widows pension on 5/6/1867. Eli McLain collected a minor’s pension on 9/24/1879, it appears that Eli was Roberts grandson.
Date of Death: 6/30/1866 . Place of burial: Harmony Cemetery
Edgar County, Illinois
Adopted By: Charlie and Christine Long Researcher: Velda L Montgomery