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- Robert Schofield was raised as a farmer and received a common school
education. When he left home he went to Kilbourn City (Wisconsin Dells),
WI, then to Chillicothe and Trenton, MO., and then to Kansas. He then
returned to his former home in New York State, and then to Brattleboro,
VT. He was there when the Civil War became a fact, and he enlisted at
Brattleboro in July, 1861 the 1st Vermont Cavalry, and was mustered as a
private at Burlington, VT. Soon after he was made Orderly Sergeant, and
before leaving the State, was promoted to First Lieutenant. In the fall
of 1861, his regiment went to Washington, DC. and received orders to join
the troops in the Shenandoah Valley.
Civil War Colonel Death: WI Dept. of Health, Bur. of Vit. Statistics,
Death record, pg.116
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1837 - 1918 (80 years)
