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