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Sergeant George I. Robinson (grandson of Francis P. Robinson, Sr., through Lyman Robinson & Betsey Burnham) was discharged from Company A, 123rd NY State Volunteer Infantry Regt, on 30 November 1863 at Bridgeport, Alabama, for the reason of "Receiving a Commission as 1st Lieutenant." He was 33 years of age at the time. The accompanying photograph is a copy of his discharge and commssion. At the time, he was serving with General Sherman's Army, Twentieth Army Corps, in Alabama, at the beginning of Sherman's march to Atlanta and thence to the sea at Savannah, GA. The Twentieth (XX) Army Corps was constituted from Slocum's Twelfth (XII)Army Corps and Howard's Eleventh (XI) Army Corps after the Battle of Gettysburg, where the 123rd defended the northern flank of the Union Army at Culp's Hill on 3-4 July 1863. Sergeant George Robinson wrote a letter to his wife, Elizabeth Wright, from these Gettysburg entrenchments on 5 July 1863, after the battle, a copy of which is in my possession.
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