The  Second  Division  in  this  First  Corps  was  led
by  Brig.  Gen.  John  Cleveland  Robinson  (1817-1897),
appointed  from  his  native  State  of  New  York  to  West
Point,  where  he  was  a  cadet  from  July  i,  1835,  until
March  14,  1838,  when  he  resigned  to  study  law.  A
soldier's  Ufe,  however,  re-allured  him,  and  he  secured
a  commission  as  second  lieutenant.  Fifth  Infantry,  in
October,  1839.  A  captain  when  the  war  broke  out,
he  was  made  colonel  First  Michigan,  July,  1861,  and
promoted  to  be  brigadier  general,  April  28,  1862.  He
was  brevetted  colonel  for  Gettysburg,  where  he  led
his  forces  with  distinguished  ability.  Brevets  up  to
major  general  followed,  and  also  a  medal  of  honor  for
gallantry  in  leading  a  charge  on  the  breastworks  at
Laurel  Hill,  May,  1864,  where  he  lost  a  leg.  He  was
retired  as  major  general  in  1869.  He  was  elected
Lieutenant  Governor  of  New  York  in  1872,  and
served  as  commander  in  chief  of  the  G.  A.  R.,in  1877
and  1878,  and  in  1887  as  president  of  the  Society  of
the  Army  of  the  Potomac.
Two  division  commanders  were  in  the  Eleventh
Corps:

Brig.  Gen.  Francis  C.  Barlow  (1834-1896),  com-
mander First  Division,  and  severely  wounded  in  the

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battle,  was  bom  in  Brooklyn  and  educated  at  Har-
vard; studied  law,  and  served  for  a  time  as  editorial
writer  on  the  New  York  Tribune.  In  the  three
months'  service  he  was  a  private;  from  the  lieutenant
colonelcy  of  the  Sixty-first  New  York  Vols,  he  rose  to
be  major  general,  developing  superb  qualities  of  leader-
ship, in  spite  of  his  youth  and  boyish  appearance;
he  was  several  times  dangerously  wounded.  After
the  war  Barlow  served  as  Secretary  of  State  of  New
York,  United  States  marshal,  and  Attorney  General
of  New  York.
