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Your Bruce F. Robbins is definitely confirmed.
He is in the 1880 Census with wife Alice and 3 children: Aden, Edna and Syria. In the 1900 Census, you can see children: Aden, Isle(?); Leona and Belle (age 11).
According to the Civil War Database, your Bruce F. Robbins:
Enlisted on 9/5/1864 as a Private.
On 9/5/1864 he mustered into "C" Co. PA 211th Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 6/2/1865 at Alexandria, VA
The 211th PA Infantry:
Organized: Camp Reynolds, Pittsburgh, PA on 9/16/64
Mustered Out: 6/2/65 at Alexandria, VA
Officers Killed or Mortally Wounded: 6
Officers Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 0
Enlisted Men Killed or Mortally Wounded: 38
Enlisted Men Died of Disease, Accidents, etc.: 53
(Source: Fox, Regimental Losses)
He has a pension file at the Archives which you can order. His widow Alice H. received his pension.
PENNSYLVANIA
TWO HUNDRED and ELEVENTH INFANTRY
(One Year)
Two Hundred and Eleventh Infantry. - Cols., James H.
Trimble, Levi A. Dodd; Lieut.-Cols., Levi A. Dodd, Augustus A.
Mechling, Charles McLain, William A. Coulter; Majs., Augustus
A. Mechling, Elias B. Lee, H. King Smith. This regiment, from
the counties of Crawford, Jefferson, McKean, Mercer, Erie, War-
ren and Westmoreland, rendezvoused at Camp Reynolds, Pittsburg,
and was mustered into the U. S. service during the first half
of Sept., 1864, for one year. Immediately after its organiza-
tion it left for the front and was assigned to Potter's provi-
sional brigade, Army of the James, on the Bermuda front. As
soon as it reached its position in the entrenchments it was or-
dered to appear upon the parapets in full range of the enemy's
guns in order to create a diversion in favor of the storming
party about to move on Fort Harrison, and men of Co. F were in-
stantly killed. On Nov. 27, with the other Pa. regiment of its
brigade, it joined the Army of the Potomac where it became a
part of the 2nd brigade, 3d division, 9th corps. During the
winter the camp of the regiment was located midway between Fort
Howard and Fort Alexander Hayes. In the action of March 25,
1865, when Fort Stedman was taken and recaptured, the 211th
suffered a loss of 1 killed and 10 wounded. It advanced gal-
lantly under the immediate command of Gen. Hartranft and it was
supposed that it would be sacrificed by the fire of the enemy,
while advancing a mile away on high ground, but the assault on
the immediate front took place and the command suffered but
little. In the final assault on Petersburg, April 2, the regi-
ment lost 4 officers and 17 men killed, 4 officers and 89 men
wounded, and 21 men missing, a total of 135. Lieut.-Col.
McLain, and Lieuts. Sparks, Alexander and Tarr were killed, and
Maj. Lee and Lieut. Pelton were mortally wounded. Capt. Gour-
lay and Lieut. Gilson were among the severely wounded. It will
thus be seen that the command had its full share in the desper-
ate fighting. It now moved along the South Side railroad with
the division in charge of army trains, as far as Nottoway Court
House, where it remained until the 20th. It then proceeded to
Alexandria, where it was mustered out on June 2, 1865.
Source: The Union Army, vol. 1
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865
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