Robert A. Cameron-- Part 4: Very Active in the Development of Colorado

Cameron finished the Civil War in command of the Department of the Gulf, based at Thibodeaux, Louisiana.  On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted to major general and resigned his commission June 22 of that year.

After the war, he went west and established farm colonies in Colorado where he promoted the economic development of Colorado and was very involved in its politics.  In 1870, he was influential in the establishment of Greeley, Colorado and then he became the superintendent of a new colony which became Colorado Springs.  He was also involved in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Later, he moved to San Francisco, but returned to Colorado where he served as a postal clerk in Denver. He died on his farm near Canon City, Colorado, and is buried there at Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery.

--Old Secesh

Robert A. Cameron-- Part 3: Western Theater

On February 3, 1862, he was transferred to the 34th Indiana and fought in Missouri at New Madrid and Island No. 10.  He was involved in the capture of Memphis, Tennessee.

On June 6, 1862, he was promoted to colonel and took over command of the 34th on June 15.

He was in the Vicksburg Campaign and was slightly wounded in the Battle of Port Gibson on May 1, 1863. Promoted to brigadier general August 11, 1863.

During the 1864 Red River Campaign, he led a division of the XIII Corps.

--Old Secesh

Robert A. Cameron-- Part 2: In the 9th and 19th Indiana Regiments

In 1857 he bought and began publishing the Valparaiso Republican newspaper and was a delegate to the Republican 1860 convention in Chicago and a big supporter of Abraham Lincoln.

When the Civil War began he was a medical doctor in Valparaiso and a member of the Indiana House of Representatives.  He enlisted in the 9th Indiana for three months and was elected captain of a company.  When that enlistment was up, he reenlisted for the duration of the war and was appointed lieutenant colonel of the 19th Indiana on July 29, 1861.

His regiment fought a skirmish at the Chain Bridge crossing the Potomac River into Washington, D.C. in September 1861.

--Old Secesh

Gen. Robert A Cameron-- Part 1: From Indiana

From Wikipedia.

Last week (Feb. 26), I wrote about this man being buried in the Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery in Canon City, Colorado along with Amanda Matilda Colburn Felch, a Civil War nurse.

Robert Cameron was born in 1828 and died March 15, 1894.

American soldier, Union general, publisher and did a lot for the development of Colorado.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and family moved to Valparaiso, Indiana, in 1842.  Graduated from Indiana Medical College in 1849 and then went to Rush Medical College in Chicago, but gave up his medical career.

--Old Secesh

Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery, Canon City, Co. Civil War Connection-- Part 1

From the January 19, 2001, Interment.Net  "A Short History of Greenwood Pioneer Cemetery."

Canon City, Colorado

I was looking for information on War of 1812 and Mexican War veteran Milby Smith.

Brevet Major General Robert A. Cameron, 34th Indiana, who later helped found the cities of Colorado Springs, Greeley and Ft. Collins is buried here.

--Old Secesh