Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameRobert John (William) Chivas, 1C3R
Birth17 Mar 1842, St Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland
Death25 Nov 1863, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
MemoKilled.
BurialForest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Baptism16 May 1842, St Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland
Note 1A member of the 24th Wisconsin Volunteers. Killed in the American Civil War at the assault of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Nov 25, 1863. In 1852 his aunt Jessie writes: ‘... Robert is going to grammar school...’.
Note 2See references to him and the Grand Army of the Republic to be found in the Civil War Archives of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Note 3See an 1864 sermon by Rev. J. P. T. Ingraham in Memory of Capt. F. A. Root and Lt. R. J. Chivas in the Whiskey Historical Archive.
Flags***, Dickson, Mitchell, Shives/Chivas
FatherCapt. William (Robert) Chivas (1805-1886)
MotherChristian (John) Mitchell (1812-1880)