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Robinson, John Cleveland 1817-1897
Military officer; born in Binghamton, N. Y., April 10, 1817; took a partial course of study at West Point, leaving it to study law; served in the war against Mexico, and at the beginning of the Civil War was in command of Fort McHenry, Baltimore.
As brigadier-general he took command of a division in Heintzelman's corps in the battle before Richmond in 1862.
He was in the principal battles in Virginia and Pennsylvania in 1863; was brevetted major-general of volunteers and majorgeneral, United States army, lost a leg at Spottsylvania; was awarded a congressional medal of honor; and was retired as a major-general, United States army, in 1869.
In 1872 he was elected lieutenant-governor of New York on the ticket headed by Gen. John A. Dix, He died in Binghamton, N. Y., Feb. 18, 1897.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Seward , William Henry 1801 -1872 (search)