Robert Brown Potter

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Robert Brown Potter
Robert Brown Potter

Robert Brown Potter (1829–1887) was a United States lawyer and a General in the American Civil War.

His father was Alonzo Potter (1800-1865), American bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Pennsylvania. Potter served as an attorney in New York City prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Potter was commissioned as a major and then promoted to lieutenant colonel during the early days of the war. He commanded the 51st New York Volunteers at Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run and Antietam. He was wounded at Antietam and at Petersburg, was commissioned a Major General of volunteers in September 1865, and was mustered out in 1866.


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