Anderson County KYGenWeb Project

U.S. Colored Troops
Civil War - Union Army

The African-American soldiers listed below all listed Anderson County, Kentucky
as their birthplace when they enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War.

This information submitted by Erik Thorson

Please note: There is additional information attached to the name of Walker Lillard, just click on the name to retrieve the information. This, also is courtesy of Erik Thorson. If anyone has additional information about any of these soldiers and you'd like to share it, we'd be more than happy to include it. Thank you for your help.

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Names in red and all links (except to Walker Lillard) added July 1, 2011.
The following links include a number of the troops on this list.
Please check out:
Simpsonville Civil War Massacre
and
5th U.S. Colored Calvary at Simpsonville, KY

Again, thanks to Erik Thorson.

Name

Enlistment Date

Enlistment Location

Regiment

Est. Birth Date

Anderson, John 9/17/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1844

Baker, William 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1829

Black, Mark 10/7/1864 Lexington, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1842

Bond, Joseph 9/1/1864 Lebanon, KY 13th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1829

Bond, William 8/8/1864 Cincinnati, OH 5th U.S. Colored Infantry 1843
Brooks, Sheldon 12/22/1863 Memphis, TN 3rd U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1825

Brannon, Sanford 5/1/1863 Lake Providence, LA 10th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent);
48th U.S. Colored Infantry 1832

Bryant, Anthony 9/17/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1836

Bucy, Jordon 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1829

Bucy, Luke 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1845

Bunting/Bunton, Clay/Charles 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Bush, Alexander 9/16/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1841
Bush, Henry 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1843

Clay, Grant 8/8/1864 Evansville, IN 28th U.S. Colored Infantry 1839

Clayton, George 4/7/1865 Louisville, KY 13th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1849

Coke, Samuel 10/7/1864 Lexington, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1824

Coleman, John 9/17/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1832

Craig, Fountain 5/30/1865 Lexington, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1836
Egbert, Obadiah 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1845

Ellis, James 9/28/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Ellison, Daniel 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1846

Embrey, Green 9/28/1863 Helena, AR 54th U.S. Colored Infantry 1838

Fiddle, Henry 9/17/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1844

Ford, Frank 9/10/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Franklin, George 9/4/1864 Helena, AR 2nd U.S. Colored Light Artillery 1838
Franklin, Mark 7/22/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1838

George, Isaac 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1843

Gillen/Jillin/Lillen, James 9/19/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1841

Grason, Thomas 10/4/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1836

Grayson, Thomas 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Hackley, James 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1845
Hams, Edward 9/27/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Hanks, Joseph 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1839

Harral/Harrall/Harrell, Adam/Adams 3/14/1865 Paducah, KY 13th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1826

Harriden/Harridon, Edmund 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Harris, Joseph 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1836

Hawkins, Jefferson 8/16/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1827
Hayden, Philip/Phillip 8/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1833

Hayden, Jefferson 8/19/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1845

Howard, Norval/Norvel/Norvell 8/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1829

Hughes/Hughs, Samuel 11/21/1863 Wyandotte, KS 18th U.S. Colored Infantry 1838

Jackson, Benjamin 9/13/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Jackson, Gerry/Jerry 8/13/1863 Natchez, MS 49th U.S. Colored Infantry
died 10/31/1864 Vicksburg, MS of lung fever 1845

Jenkins, Jacob 8/1/1863 Natchez, MS 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1839
Johnson, George 8/1/1863 Natchez, MS 5th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1842

Jones, Jarrett E. 5/29/1863 Readville, MA 55th Massachusetts Colored Infantry 1835

Jordan/Jordin/Jordon , Haskin/Haskins 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Lancaster, Henry/Jerry 9/10/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Lillard, George 2/12/1864 Wyandotte, KS 18th U.S. Colored Infantry 1820

Lillard, Walker 3/21/1864 Mexico, MO 68th U.S. Colored Infantry 1838
Lillard, David 3/21/1864 Mexico, MO 68th U.S. Colored Infantry 1841

Maddison, William 9/10/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1845

McCall, Marcellus 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

McMichael/McMitchel/McMitchell, Charles 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1846

Meyers, Abraham/Edmond 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1843

Monroe, Thomas 4/22/1864 Indianapolis, IN 28th U.S. Colored Infantry 1832
Montjoy/Mountjoy, John 3/1/1865 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1834

Montjoy/Mountjoy, Thomas 8/5/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1843

Mukes, George 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1840

Myers, Edmund 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1821

Nicholas/Nicholes/Nichols, Thomas 8/18/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1836

Overton , Jackson 10/1/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1819
Payne, Joe 3/17/1865 Lebanon, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1847

Pernel, John 9/29/1863 Elk River, TN 12th U.S. Colored Infantry 1844

Rennick, Squire 2/23/1864 Wyandotte, KS 18th U.S. Colored Infantry 1838

Riley, Dudey/Dudley 10/11/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1834

Robinson, Washington 7/26/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1821

Saffell, Lonellen 10/4/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1840
Skinner, Henry 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1839

Slaughter, Thomas 10/11/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1841

Slaughter, Edmund 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Smith, Band/Bond/Bund 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1829

Sutton, James 10/18/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1841

Tayler, Allen 8/27/1864 Lexington, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1821
Taylor, William 1/27/1865 Philadelphia, PA 24th U.S. Colored Infantry 1833

Taylor, James 9/14/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1844

Thomas, Grant 9/9/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Tinsley, William J. 8/8/1864 Mexico, MO 18th U.S. Colored Infantry 1823

Walker, George 10/6/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1831

Walkerson, Richard 8/18/1863 Natchez, MS 6th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1839
Washington, Jr., George 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1846

White, George 9/10/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 5th U.S. Colored Cavalry 1846

Wilson, David 9/21/1864 Camp Nelson, KY 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1845

Wood, Logan 4/17/1864 Knoxville, TN 1st U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery 1843

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