Promoted from Sergeant to 2d Lieutenant, 2 July 1862; promoted to 1st Lieutenant., 30 October 1862. Mustered out with company, 13 July 1864.

Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866: Age at Enrollment: 26; Occupation: Professor; Residence: Armstrong Co.; Hair: Black; Eyes: Black; Complexion: Dark; Height: 5'7"

There is no indication in any record I have seen, but after Captain Beck was captured at the Wilderness, Townsend must have served in the capacity of the captain of the company the final months of the company's service.

The 1870 Census lists Robert Townsend in South Bend Township, Armstrong County, with wife Mary Hellen. His occupation is listed as Dry Goods Merchant (ret.). They had two children under the age of 5. Ten years later he was now a general merchant and four more children had been born.

According to the Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, 1902, Townsend was a teacher in Oakland, Mississippi, from 1856-59; a medical student in Apollo and Pittsburg in 1859-1860, a teacher in Wilsonville, Ky., from 1860-1861. After the war he was in the oil business from 1964 to 1866, a merchant in South Bend, Pa., from 1866 to 1887, and in Kansas City, Mo., in 1887. He married Helen Durett.

Robert S Townsend