From a transcript of the Record of St. John's [Stockport] and St. Barnabas [Stottville] Burials:
"Lt. Robert Dunlop, adjutant of the 159th Rgt. New York State Volunteers, killed in battle at Irish Bend, St. Mary's Parish, La. April 14, 1863. Son of Capt. Gideon Lathrop and born at Burlington, Vt. Dec. 9, 1840. His family removed to Stockport and at an early age he took an active interest in the affairs of the parish, making voluntarily the pecuniary collections and rendering other important services. In May 1861 he joined the 14th Rgt. of the NYS Volunteers and served on the campaign of that year and in that on the peninsula in the following year. Having been engaged in several battles, in particular, in the seven days fight near Richmond and in subsequent retreat to Harrison's Landing. From this place he was sent home to collect for his regiment, but while engaged in this service, was appointed adjutant of the new 159th Rgt. then being organized at Hudson. This regiment sailed under Gen. Banks for New Orleans in November 1862 and was employed in various services during the following winter. In the
expedition through the Teche country, they were surprised by a rebel force and the regiment was badly cut up. Adjutant Lathrop, having taken the place of the absent Major, while engaging the men fell mortally wounded."
Roby was initially buried near the site of the battle, at Franklin, La, but it was only on the initiative of his father, Capt. Gideon Lathrop, who traveled to Louisiana soon after the battle, that his body was eventually brought home and buried in his grandfather Dunlop's lot at Albany Rural Cemetery December 19th, 1863.
Gideon Lathrop's diaries, which recount the loss to the family, are at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY. The Society also holds the James E. Johnson portrait of Roby (age 6) and his sister Janet Andrew Lathrop, illustrated at left. In the painting, Roby points in the distance to a steamboat. Both his father and his grandfather Dunlop were connected with steamboating on the Hudson. (The scene may well be modeled after William H. Bartlett's "View from Ruggles House, Newburgh, Hudson River," one of several picturesque engravings published in American Scenery in 1840.)
"Lt. Robert Dunlop, adjutant of the 159th Rgt. New York State Volunteers, killed in battle at Irish Bend, St. Mary's Parish, La. April 14, 1863. Son of Capt. Gideon Lathrop and born at Burlington, Vt. Dec. 9, 1840. His family removed to Stockport and at an early age he took an active interest in the affairs of the parish, making voluntarily the pecuniary collections and rendering other important services. In May 1861 he joined the 14th Rgt. of the NYS Volunteers and served on the campaign of that year and in that on the peninsula in the following year. Having been engaged in several battles, in particular, in the seven days fight near Richmond and in subsequent retreat to Harrison's Landing. From this place he was sent home to collect for his regiment, but while engaged in this service, was appointed adjutant of the new 159th Rgt. then being organized at Hudson. This regiment sailed under Gen. Banks for New Orleans in November 1862 and was employed in various services during the following winter. In the
expedition through the Teche country, they were surprised by a rebel force and the regiment was badly cut up. Adjutant Lathrop, having taken the place of the absent Major, while engaging the men fell mortally wounded."
Roby was initially buried near the site of the battle, at Franklin, La, but it was only on the initiative of his father, Capt. Gideon Lathrop, who traveled to Louisiana soon after the battle, that his body was eventually brought home and buried in his grandfather Dunlop's lot at Albany Rural Cemetery December 19th, 1863.
Gideon Lathrop's diaries, which recount the loss to the family, are at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY. The Society also holds the James E. Johnson portrait of Roby (age 6) and his sister Janet Andrew Lathrop, illustrated at left. In the painting, Roby points in the distance to a steamboat. Both his father and his grandfather Dunlop were connected with steamboating on the Hudson. (The scene may well be modeled after William H. Bartlett's "View from Ruggles House, Newburgh, Hudson River," one of several picturesque engravings published in American Scenery in 1840.)
From a transcript of the Record of St. John's [Stockport] and St. Barnabas [Stottville] Burials:
"Lt. Robert Dunlop, adjutant of the 159th Rgt. New York State Volunteers, killed in battle at Irish Bend, St. Mary's Parish, La. April 14, 1863. Son of Capt. Gideon Lathrop and born at Burlington, Vt. Dec. 9, 1840. His family removed to Stockport and at an early age he took an active interest in the affairs of the parish, making voluntarily the pecuniary collections and rendering other important services. In May 1861 he joined the 14th Rgt. of the NYS Volunteers and served on the campaign of that year and in that on the peninsula in the following year. Having been engaged in several battles, in particular, in the seven days fight near Richmond and in subsequent retreat to Harrison's Landing. From this place he was sent home to collect for his regiment, but while engaged in this service, was appointed adjutant of the new 159th Rgt. then being organized at Hudson. This regiment sailed under Gen. Banks for New Orleans in November 1862 and was employed in various services during the following winter. In the
expedition through the Teche country, they were surprised by a rebel force and the regiment was badly cut up. Adjutant Lathrop, having taken the place of the absent Major, while engaging the men fell mortally wounded."
Roby was initially buried near the site of the battle, at Franklin, La, but it was only on the initiative of his father, Capt. Gideon Lathrop, who traveled to Louisiana soon after the battle, that his body was eventually brought home and buried in his grandfather Dunlop's lot at Albany Rural Cemetery December 19th, 1863.
Gideon Lathrop's diaries, which recount the loss to the family, are at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY. The Society also holds the James E. Johnson portrait of Roby (age 6) and his sister Janet Andrew Lathrop, illustrated at left. In the painting, Roby points in the distance to a steamboat. Both his father and his grandfather Dunlop were connected with steamboating on the Hudson. (The scene may well be modeled after William H. Bartlett's "View from Ruggles House, Newburgh, Hudson River," one of several picturesque engravings published in American Scenery in 1840.)
"Lt. Robert Dunlop, adjutant of the 159th Rgt. New York State Volunteers, killed in battle at Irish Bend, St. Mary's Parish, La. April 14, 1863. Son of Capt. Gideon Lathrop and born at Burlington, Vt. Dec. 9, 1840. His family removed to Stockport and at an early age he took an active interest in the affairs of the parish, making voluntarily the pecuniary collections and rendering other important services. In May 1861 he joined the 14th Rgt. of the NYS Volunteers and served on the campaign of that year and in that on the peninsula in the following year. Having been engaged in several battles, in particular, in the seven days fight near Richmond and in subsequent retreat to Harrison's Landing. From this place he was sent home to collect for his regiment, but while engaged in this service, was appointed adjutant of the new 159th Rgt. then being organized at Hudson. This regiment sailed under Gen. Banks for New Orleans in November 1862 and was employed in various services during the following winter. In the
expedition through the Teche country, they were surprised by a rebel force and the regiment was badly cut up. Adjutant Lathrop, having taken the place of the absent Major, while engaging the men fell mortally wounded."
Roby was initially buried near the site of the battle, at Franklin, La, but it was only on the initiative of his father, Capt. Gideon Lathrop, who traveled to Louisiana soon after the battle, that his body was eventually brought home and buried in his grandfather Dunlop's lot at Albany Rural Cemetery December 19th, 1863.
Gideon Lathrop's diaries, which recount the loss to the family, are at the Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, NY. The Society also holds the James E. Johnson portrait of Roby (age 6) and his sister Janet Andrew Lathrop, illustrated at left. In the painting, Roby points in the distance to a steamboat. Both his father and his grandfather Dunlop were connected with steamboating on the Hudson. (The scene may well be modeled after William H. Bartlett's "View from Ruggles House, Newburgh, Hudson River," one of several picturesque engravings published in American Scenery in 1840.)
