CYRUS GORDON ROBERTS -- 186thINFANTRYUNKNOWN GRAVE - For a Town Bounty of \$800, Cyrus Gordon Robertsenlisted in Plattsburgh. He was born in 1844 in Thurman, Warren County,the son of Nathanial Roberts and Mary Foster who had come from NewEngland to farm in the 1830s. By 1850, the couple had five children ofthe twelve who had been born to them. Mary died in 1858.In the rush to sign up troops to throw into the Theater of War betweenRichmond and Petersburg in early September 1864, Cyrus was mistakenlyassigned to two regiments at the recruitment depot -- the 175th andthe 186th Infantries, The Muster Roll Abstract for the 175thInfantry says only, "Not born on roll of any company."The 186th Infantry left for Washington from Sackett's Harbor wherethey organized and joined the Army of the Potomac at the end ofSeptember. Cyrus was with the regiment near Petersburg for the rest ofthe year and was at the Fall of Petersburg on April 2, 1865. He waswounded there and, according to the Thurman Town Clerk's records, "SentNorth to a hospital. Unknown where buried"After the war, the family moved back to Beverly, MA, to be with hischildren who had remained there.
