Soldier:  Robert T. Barge

Regiment:  96^th. 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