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| | Corporal Robert Tilton, Company C (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Robert Antis Tilton enlisted in Company C of the Fifty-First Illinois at Middleport, at the age of 17. |
 | | But, back in New York, the Tilton family was alarmed that one of their favorite sons, corporal or not, was falling ill when the regiment had barely left camp for the field. |
 | | Robert survived April, the month when the regiment finished its tasks at Island No. 10, took the steamers for Fort Pillow, turned around and took the steamers to Hamburg Landing, and started slogging toward Farmington and Corinth. |
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