Robert C. Bamford
Name: Robert C. Bamford
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 1st Potomac Home Brigade Inf.
Race: White
Place of Birth/Residence: Sharpsburg, Washington County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: H
Rank at End of Service: Captain
Notes:
In January 1861, he and 100 men erected a telegraph line from Hagerstown, Washington Co., MD to Hancock, Washington Co., MD while Jackson's men were raiding that area
Source(s):
United States Census Bureau, “1890 Special Schedule – Surviving Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines, and Widows, etc.,” [database on-line], Ancestry.com; L. Allison Wilmer, J. H. Jarrett and Geo. W. F. Vernon, History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5, Volume 1 (Baltimore: Guggenheimer, Weil, & Co., 1899), 281; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998); John Thomas Scharf, History of Western Maryland, Volume I (Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1882), 327; National Archives, Washington, DC, Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line], Ancestry.com.
