A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . wereplaced in barracks at Albany, where an order was re-ceived to consolidate all parts of companies and regi-ments and forward them at once to Washington. Un-der this order his men were assigned to Company I, 93dNew York Volunteers. They, however, refused to gounless Robertson went with them. Rather than desertthe men he had enlisted, he at once entered the serviceas a private, but was made orderly sergeant of his com-pany, and in that cap
A biographical history of eminent and self-made men of the state of Indiana : with many portrait-illustrations on steel, engraved expressly for this work . wereplaced in barracks at Albany, where an order was re-ceived to consolidate all parts of companies and regi-ments and forward them at once to Washington. Un-der this order his men were assigned to Company I, 93dNew York Volunteers. They, however, refused to gounless Robertson went with them. Rather than desertthe men he had enlisted, he at once entered the serviceas a private, but was made orderly sergeant of his com-pany, and in that capacity went to the front. In April,1861, he was made second lieutenant. His regimentbeing on duty as guard for army headquarters, he soongrew tired of the inactivity, and accepted the po-sition that was tendered him as aide on the start ofGeneral N. A. Miles, who was coinmanding one of thefighting brigades in the First Division, Second on this duty he was twice wounded in battle:once in the charge at Spottsylvania, May 12, 1864, whena musket ball was flattened on his knee; and, again, onthe 30th of May, 1864, at Tolopotomy Creek, where he. ? L^. a-^. c (JT/V^ r ^/^L ,2lh Dist.\ KEPRESEXTATIVE MEN OF INDL4NA. 63 was shot from his hoise in a charge, the ball passingthrough his abdomen from the front of the right hip tothe back of the left, at which time he was reportedamong the mortally wounded. Possessing a strong con-stitution and temperate habits, he recovered sufficientlyto go to the front, before Petersburg, in the fall of1S64. His wound breaking out afresh, he was dis-charged September 3, 1864, for disability from woundsreceived in action. For these services he was the re-cipient of two brevet commissions: one was from thePresident of the United States, conferring the rank ofcaptain ; the other being that of colonel, conferred by theGovernor of New York, for gallant and meritoriousservices in the battle of Spottsylvania and TolopotomyCreek. During the two years f
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