ROBERT ALLEN CHASE -- 60th INFANTRYGOT AS FAR AS BALTIMORE - On September 21, 1861, Robert Allen Chase, theson of farmers Abram Chase and Caroline Campbell, enlisted in the 60thInfantry in Saranac. By October 30th, he and two other men, the Guynupbrothers, who had enlisted with him in Saranac, were mustered intoCaptain James Ransom's Company H in Ogdensburg.Less than a week later, the regiment left for Washington by train andwas stationed in that vicinity during the winter. In the spring of 1862,they were in General Dix\'s Railroad Brigade guarding infrastructure ofthe Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad and in May. Before the60th was sent to Harper's Ferry, Robert became ill and was sent tohospital in Baltimore. He was later sent to hospital on David's Islandin Long Island Sound off the coast of New Rochelle, NY, to recover. OnNovember 24, 1862, he was discharged for disability.Robert started receiving an invalid's pension two months after hereturned home. He worked in the local area and lived in boarding housesuntil he married Lizette Collins in 1881. They raised their family offive boys in Dannemora and took in boarders of their own.He died in January 1902 and was buried in the Independence Cemetery inSaranac where his mother was buried in 1861. In April of the same year,Lizette's Widows Pension began. She received it until 1927 and wasburied beside her husband.If you have a few minutes, you can take a lovely aerial tour of thecemetery and its Civil War monument by drone pilot, Josh Wingler, at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xECF9i8XmI&ab_channel=CVRS%3BSBDAI
