Private, Company F, 16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
Robert S. Johnson was born to James Martin Johnson and Mariam Worthington in Madison County, Arkansas around 1842. He was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas when he enlisted into Company F of the 16th Kansas Cavalry on March 12, 1864. He mustered in on April 27, 1864, and his regiment skirmished in Missouri before participating in operations against Price's Raid, most notably at the Battle of Westport, Missouri on October 23, 1864. During the summer of 1865 the regiment was ordered to join the Powder River Expedition and campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho on the northern Great Plains. Private Robert Johnson died on August 19, 1865 near the headwaters of Hay Creek and the Belle Fourche River along the northwestern edge of the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. His comrades buried him in an unmarked grave near the Belle Fourche River that has never been identified.
Robert's half-brother James would later become the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
Robert S. Johnson was born to James Martin Johnson and Mariam Worthington in Madison County, Arkansas around 1842. He was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas when he enlisted into Company F of the 16th Kansas Cavalry on March 12, 1864. He mustered in on April 27, 1864, and his regiment skirmished in Missouri before participating in operations against Price's Raid, most notably at the Battle of Westport, Missouri on October 23, 1864. During the summer of 1865 the regiment was ordered to join the Powder River Expedition and campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho on the northern Great Plains. Private Robert Johnson died on August 19, 1865 near the headwaters of Hay Creek and the Belle Fourche River along the northwestern edge of the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. His comrades buried him in an unmarked grave near the Belle Fourche River that has never been identified.
Robert's half-brother James would later become the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
Private, Company F, 16th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry Regiment.
Robert S. Johnson was born to James Martin Johnson and Mariam Worthington in Madison County, Arkansas around 1842. He was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas when he enlisted into Company F of the 16th Kansas Cavalry on March 12, 1864. He mustered in on April 27, 1864, and his regiment skirmished in Missouri before participating in operations against Price's Raid, most notably at the Battle of Westport, Missouri on October 23, 1864. During the summer of 1865 the regiment was ordered to join the Powder River Expedition and campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho on the northern Great Plains. Private Robert Johnson died on August 19, 1865 near the headwaters of Hay Creek and the Belle Fourche River along the northwestern edge of the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. His comrades buried him in an unmarked grave near the Belle Fourche River that has never been identified.
Robert's half-brother James would later become the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
Robert S. Johnson was born to James Martin Johnson and Mariam Worthington in Madison County, Arkansas around 1842. He was a resident of Leavenworth, Kansas when he enlisted into Company F of the 16th Kansas Cavalry on March 12, 1864. He mustered in on April 27, 1864, and his regiment skirmished in Missouri before participating in operations against Price's Raid, most notably at the Battle of Westport, Missouri on October 23, 1864. During the summer of 1865 the regiment was ordered to join the Powder River Expedition and campaign against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho on the northern Great Plains. Private Robert Johnson died on August 19, 1865 near the headwaters of Hay Creek and the Belle Fourche River along the northwestern edge of the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. His comrades buried him in an unmarked grave near the Belle Fourche River that has never been identified.
Robert's half-brother James would later become the 2nd Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas.
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