Soldier: Robert Franklin Bartlett
Regiment: 96th. OVI
Company: D
Age: 22
Date Entering Service: August 21, 1862
Period of Service: 3 years
Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):
Wounded January 11, 1863 in Battle of Arkansas Post. Wounded November 3, 1863 in Battle of Grand Coteau, Louisiana. Left arm amputated. Discharged January 25, 1864 at New Orleans, Louisiana
Battles in which he fought:
Chickasaw Bluff, Mississippi December 28, 29, 1862
Arkansas Post, Arkansas January 11, 1863
Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi May 18 – July 4, 1863
Jackson, Mississippi July 9-16, 1863
Grand Coteau, Louisiana November 3, 1863
Other interesting information discovered:
Robert’s younger brother, John Bartlett was killed at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia on September 19, 1863.
Date of Death: July, 1912
Place of burial: Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt. Gilead, Ohio
Researcher: Zach Greene and Anna Drouhard Greene
