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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1861. (search)
where his duty called him, apart from the main current of the war, and from association with familiar friends, there is something peculiarly pathetic in his brief military career, terminating, as it began, on the outpost of civilized life. Thomas Rodman Robeson. Second Lieutenant 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry,) May 28, 1861; first Lieutenant, November 30, 1861; Captain, August 10, 1862 died July 6, 1863, at Gettysburg, Pa., July 3. Thomas Rodman Robeson was born in New Bedford, November 7, 1840. He was a son of Thomas Rodman and Sibyl (Washburn) Robeson. Through his mother he was a descendant of Roger Williams. His father was long engaged in the shipping business, and died August 13, 1848. He was a son of Andrew Robeson, a prominent merchant and successful manufacturer of New Bedford. Andrew Robeson established, under many discouragements and difficulties, the print-works which bore his name in Fall River, the first establishment of the kind in the State, and made the bus