. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . A I TAXT HEMAN F. ROBINSON, Son of Ileman and Betsey Robinson, was born on the thirtieth of September,•1887, at Bennington, Vermont Descended from Revolutionary sins, and sur-rounded by reminiscences and mementoes of the battle of Bennington, his young 364 The Seventy-sixth Regiment N. Y. mind was early imb
. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . A I TAXT HEMAN F. ROBINSON, Son of Ileman and Betsey Robinson, was born on the thirtieth of September,•1887, at Bennington, Vermont Descended from Revolutionary sins, and sur-rounded by reminiscences and mementoes of the battle of Bennington, his young 364 The Seventy-sixth Regiment N. Y. mind was early imbued with a pat-riotic fervor and love for his countryand its glorious flag, which causedhim to be an early and earnest vol-unteer in its service, soon after theopening of the great rebellion. Hisearly education was of the characterat that time provided in the commonschools and academies of his nativetown. His mind partaking of theroving element,however, he confinedhimself to dry and tedious studies,and being an orphan, with no rela-tive or guardian to oppose hiswishes, he embarked, at the age offourteen, as a common sailor, on board the good ship St. Nicholas, bound fromNew York to Havre, France. Too young to bear without disgust the roughnessand privations of the lifeof a common seaman, he returned home at the end of afew months, and quietly settled down to the life of a farmer; not, however, with-out making several subsequent attempts to get to China or Valparaiso, whichwere only prevented by promises of an appointment to the United States MilitaryAcademy, upon the
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