Polk County IA Archives Obituaries.....ROBBINS, JAMES EDWIN 1864
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 "AMERICAN PATRIOTISM" OR, MEMOIRS OF 'COMMON MEN.'" by LEONARD BROWN, 1869
JAMES EDWIN ROBBINS
“ROBBINS was," says Captain Marsh, "one of the best fighting men that ever
lived. He was always where he belonged." He fought in the battles of Donelson,
and Shiloh, and Corinth, served a three years' term as a private in Company D,
received an honorable discharge, and then became a scout for Gen. Thomas. In
1864 he was fired upon by guerillas in ambush, near Gravelly Springs, on the
Tennessee River, and killed. His companions fled, and did not return to bury him
- and it is not known that he ever received Christian burial.
He was born in Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio; had been a resident of Polk County
three years when he enlisted, at the age of sixteen. He came West with his
mother, a widow, who died in Louisa County, Iowa, in the year 1866. In a letter
to Mr. John Youngerman, Robbins says;							                                   
           RIENZI, Sept. 2, 1862.
I am glad to bear that all the boys are enlisting; for if they do not come soon
they will not have any fun at all."


Additional Comments:
This is taken from "AMERICAN PATRIOTISM" OR, MEMOIRS OF 'COMMON MEN.'" by
LEONARD BROWN, published by Redhead & Wellslager, 41 Court Ave.Des Moines,IA. 1869.
This book contains remembrances of fallen soldiers from Polk County during the
Civil War. This includes some genealogical material as well.

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