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Robert Huston Milroy (Indiana attorney and U.S. Army general)

b. 1816-06-11 d. 1890-03-29

Carroll County, Indiana, attorney and soldier. Washington County, Indiana, native. Married to Mary Jane Armitage Milroy in Carroll County, Indiana, on May 17, 1849. Graduated from Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, in 1843. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Graduated from the law department of Indiana University in 1850. Member of the Indiana Constitutional Convention 1849-50. Appointed judge of the 8th Judicial Circuit Court of Indiana in 1851. Captain in First Indiana Volunteers from June 20, 1846, to June 16 1847. Served in 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry as captain from April 23, 1861, to August 27, 1861 and colonel from August 27, 1861 to September 3, 1861. Promoted to brigadier general on September 3, 1861. Promoted to major general on November 29, 1862. Served as commander of the 2nd Division of the 8th Army Corps in 1863. Resigned his commission on July 26, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Carroll County, District 9, p. 259A and 259B

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Carroll County, Deer Creek Township, p. 470A.

Indiana Marriages, 1810-2001, Carroll County, Volume 2, 1847-1855, (accessed via Ancestry.com on April 13, 2018), p. 64 of microfilm.

Indiana Adjutant General's Office Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 1 (Indianapolis: A.H. Connor, State Printer, 1869), p. 38, 179.


John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, ed., Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 4, (New York: Appleton, 1888), 334.

Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Reunion of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland: Twenty-First Reunion, 1890 Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co, 1891), 268.

Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army: From Its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Govt. rint. Off., 1903), 714.

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Milroy, Robert Huston. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202734 (November 12, 2026).

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