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ROBERT ERSKINE FITCH, who is buried in Greenhill Cemetery, Laramie Wyoming, was a soldier in the Civil War from Iowa.
He enlisted with his close friends and neighbors from Redman village, Tama County Iowa, into Company G of the 14th Iowa Infantry. Redman is no longer on the map, except for a cemetery. It once sat straddling the border between Tama and Benton county, where Highway 21 is today, just north of the junction of Highway 21 and Highway 30.
He fought at Fort Donelson and at the Hornets' Nest of Shiloh where he was taken prisoner with his regiment after making an heroic stand that saved Grant's army from destruction.
Here is his roster information from the 14th Iowa Infantry, Company G:
Fitch, Robert Erskine. Age 18. Residence Redman, Tama County, nativity Illinois. Enlisted October 22, 1861.
Mustered November 2, 1861. Missing in action April 6, 1862, Shiloh Tennessee. Discharged December 1862, St. Louis, Missouri.
After the War Robert Fitch and his wife Lydia Eaton moved to Laramie Wyoming where he was a school principal and a memebr of the state legislature. They had two sons Robert G and Edwin E., and several grandchildren.
The museum of the small Iowa town of Traer, near the site where Redman village once existed, has put out a book of soldiers' letters along with a diary, all from Robert Fitch's companions. Descendants of Robert E Fitch seeking more information about his life might enjoy this book which gives an almost day to day description, all in first person accounts, of the war experiences of this group of men from Tama County.
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