Nathaniel Robie
Nathaniel Robie was born on July 5, 1834, in Orange County, Vermont, to John Robie and Sally Bond. His father was a farmer. Robie attended school in Bradford and worked on his father’s farm. He married Frances Elizabeth Freeman on December 31, 1860, in Fairlee, Vermont.
 
Robie enlisted in the Union army on May 2, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company D of the 1st Vermont Infantry. The regiment spent the next three months at Fortress Monroe before mustering out on August 15, 1861. After a few months at home, Robie enlisted as a sergeant in Company D of the 8th Vermont Infantry on November 22, 1861. He was wounded on May 27, 1863, in the Siege of Port Hudson. He earned a promotion to 2nd lieutenant sometime in 1864, but he received a severe leg wound at the Battle of Opequon on September 19, 1864. He returned to Vermont to recover, and he died in St. Johnsbury on December 6, 1864. According to one doctor, he “died from gun shot wound, congestion of liver and spleen, the result of exposure to the malarial influence of southern climate, combined with abscess of liver.” His daughter Sarah Dyantha Robie was born soon afterward, on January 25, 1865.
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(98)Robie, Nathaniel1834-07-051864-12-06
  • Conflict Side: Union
  • Role: Soldier
  • Rank in: Sergeant
  • Rank out: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Rank highest: 2nd Lieutenant
  • Gender: Male
  • Race: White

Documents - Records: 52

  • (675) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 20 January 1862
  • (676) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 2 February 1862
  • (677) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 19 February 1862
  • (678) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 27 February 1862
  • (679) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 2 March 1862
  • (680) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 3 March 1862
  • (681) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 5 March 1862
  • (682) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 9 March 1862
  • (683) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 2 April 1862
  • (684) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 14 April 1862
  • (685) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 14 May 1862
  • (686) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 19 July 1862
  • (687) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 4 August 1862
  • (688) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 13 August 1862
  • (689) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 5 October 1862
  • (690) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 16 November 1862
  • (691) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 28 November 1862
  • (692) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 22 March 1863
  • (693) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 23 April 1863
  • (694) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 26 April 1863
  • (695) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 18 June 1863
  • (696) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 31 August 1863
  • (697) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 16 November 1863
  • (698) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 21 November 1863
  • (699) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 18 December 1863
  • (700) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 26 December 1863
  • (701) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 4 January 1864
  • (702) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 20 January 1864
  • (703) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 9 June 1864
  • (704) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 16 June 1864
  • (705) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 24 June 1864
  • (706) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 10 July 1864
  • (707) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 24 July 1864
  • (708) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 2 August 1864
  • (709) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 9 August 1864
  • (710) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 25 August 1864
  • (711) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 9 September 1864
  • (712) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 3 December 1863
  • (714) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 26 December 1863
  • (715) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 30 November 1863
  • (716) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 26 November 1863
  • (717) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 4 January 1864
  • (718) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 26 August 1862
  • (719) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 22 January 1863
  • (720) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 10 February 1863
  • (722) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 13 May 1863
  • (723) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 4 January 1863
  • (5016) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 3 February 1864
  • (5017) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 21 February 1864
  • (5018) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 2 March 1864
  • (5019) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 14 March 1864
  • (5020) [writer] ~ Nathaniel Robie to Frances Robie, 29 May 1864

People - Records: 1

  • (98) Robie, Nathaniel is the [husband of] (99) Robie, Frances Elizabeth

Places - Records: 2

  • (65) [birth] ~ Orange County, Vermont
  • (1687) [death] ~ St. Johnsbury, Caledonia County, Vermont

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Regiments - Records: 1

  • (83) [enlisted] [D] ~ 1st Vermont Cavalry
SOURCES

1850 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Service Record for Nathaniel Robie, available from Fold3.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Vermont Vital Records, 1720-1908, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Pension Record for Frances Dobie, available from Fold3.com.