There is confusion about the spelling of Edward's middle name, Robie vs. Robey. In his will and in his personal bible Edward himself spells it ROBIE. Also spelled ROBIE in his Civil War Pension application.
The following was published in the "Fifty-third Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy" June 12, 1922:
EDWARD R. HOPKINS No. 1861, Class of 1860. Died, August 14, 1921, at Brooklyn, N.Y., aged 84 years.
With the passing away of Edward R. Hopkins the Academy lost one of the oldest of its living graduates. Born in New York, he was appointed to the Military Academy from that state and entered July 1, 1855.
Upon graduation, July 1, 1860, he was appointed a Brevet Second Lieutenant of Infantry and assigned to the 3rd Infantry. His first service was in Texas at Ringgold Barracks, Camp Wetherell, and Indianola. At the latter place he was captured by Texas Insurgents under General Van Dorn, April 26, 1861 , and was not exchanged until August 27, 1862.
He was promoted to be First Lieutenant, 3rd Infantry, May 14, 1861, and Captain, 3rd Infantry, June 7, 1862. He served in garrison at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., and on detached service at the Headquarters of the Department of the East, and then became an Assistant Instructor of Infantry Tactics at the Military Academy.
February 9, 1863, he was commissioned as Captain, Staff Commissary of Subsistence, and until 1864 served as Inspector of Commissariat, first with the Department of the Tennessee, then at Nashville, Tenn., and later at Evansville, Ind. e was Depot Commissary at Hilton Head, S.C., during January and February of 1863, and Assistant Commissary, Military Division of the Mississippi, during March and April of that year.
For faithful and meritorious services during the Rebellion, he was brevetted a Major, March 13, 1865. On May 13, 1865, he resigned from the army.
After leaving the service he was Principal of Newark, N.J., Academy, 1867-74; Instructor of Mathematics in Military Schools at Worcester, Mass., on the Hudson, and at Atlanta, Ga., 1874-85. From 1885-1887 he was superintendent of a mining company in southwestern Colorado. In 1870 he received the degree of A.M. from Princeton College.
During the later years of his life he resided in Brooklyn, N.Y., and died there at the home of his son, Clarence E. Hopkins, 460 52nd St., from complications incident to his advanced years.
The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Title: U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934; Series Number: T288.
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