Colonel William Robinson
The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer, 26 January 1864, page 3
NEWPORT NEWS
RETURN OF A REBEL COLONEL TO NEWPORT-Colonel William Robinson, of
the rebel army, who at the outbreak of the rebellion, was a Second Lieutenant in
the Regular Army of the United States and stationed at the Newport Barracks, has
returned from the South, and taken the amnesty oath offered by President
Lincoln.
Colonel Robinson is the son-in-law of Major McRea.