Civil War Genealogy Database
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8th Kentucky Infantry
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Company Unknown
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Frank A Owen - Private
Contact Name:
robert caudle
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 7/30/2004
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Company A
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James Madison Chandler - Private
Contact Name:
Mark Chandler
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/22/2018
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Company B
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J J Begley - Sergeant
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Buried in Kapark Cemetery, Newton county, Arkansas
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Contact Name:
Dwight Goldman
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/16/2013
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Company B
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William L. Howard - 3rd Sergeant
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Great-Great-Grandfather
William Howard enlisted as a private and ended the war as a 3rd sergeant. No records of ever being wounded. Captured at Fort Donelson, sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, Exchanged with 8th Kentucky Infantry (later to become 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry). Joined General Nathan Bedford Forrest in March of 1864. Fought in Brice's Crossroads, Franklin, Tennessee, covered the retreat of the Army of Tennessee after the disastrous Battle of Nashville, fought at Selma, Alabama and surrendered with General Forrest at Gainesville, Alabama.
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Company B
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B. F. Hutchinson - Private
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Wounded at Ft. Doneldson. I asume he was evacuwated to a hospital just before the surrender of the fort. for he was not captured there but was wounded. Shortly thereafter he Joined company 'B' 2nd(Woodward's)Kentucky Cavalry where he serve until Honarably discharged in late 1862.
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Company B
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George washington Murphy - Private
Contact Name:
michele tynes
Contact Email:
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Contact Homepage: micheletynes7@gmail.com
Date Added: 11/22/2015
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Company C
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James Melford Davidson - Private
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Taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and later paroled.
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Contact Name:
Jeffrey Davidson
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Date Added: 4/8/2011
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Company C
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Robert Harrison Fristoe - Captain
Contact Name:
Bradford Blaine
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/28/2013
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Company C
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Francis Marion McNeill - Private
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Private Francis Marion McNeill was captured at the Battle of Paducah and sent to Camp Chase Ohio.
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Contact Name:
Donald A. McNeill
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Date Added: 12/22/2004
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Company C
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Hector R. McNeill - Private
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Private Hector McNeill was killed in action at Fort Donnelson in February, 1862.
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Contact Name:
Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/22/2004
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Company C
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James Nelson McNeill - Private
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Private James Nelson McNeill died at the Alton Prison Hospital on January 4, 1865. He was captured at the Battle of Harrisburg Mississippi in July on 1864.
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Contact Name:
Donald A. McNeill
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Date Added: 12/22/2004
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Company C
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William Daniel McNeill - Private
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Private William Daniel McNeill survied the War Between the States and died in 1919 in the Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
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Contact Name:
Donald A. McNeill
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Date Added: 12/22/2004
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Company C
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William Henry McNeill - Private
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Private William Henry was severely wounded in the Battle of Tishamingo Creek Mississippi on June 10, 1864. The regiment was the 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry at this time.
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Contact Name:
Donald A. McNeill
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Date Added: 3/28/2004
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Company D
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jacob coffman bennett - 2nd Lieutenant
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At Fort Donaldson resigned from his rank and went back to the front as a private and was captured, later escaped and became captain of co a in Johnson's 10th ky partisan rangers cavalry csa . One of the six officers who escape with Gen Morgan from the Ohio State Prison.
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Contact Name:
Mr Kem Dowell Coe
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Date Added: 8/31/2008
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Company G
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James Stallons - Private
Contact Name:
Clifton Boyd
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/11/2008
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Company G
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Joseph Stallons - Private
Contact Name:
Clifton Boyd
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/11/2008
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Company G
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Reuben Stallons - Private
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Great Great Great Grandfather.
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Contact Name:
Clifton Boyd
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Date Added: 12/10/2008
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Company I
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Henry Clay Edwards - Private
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Captured at Ft Donelson a POW at Camp Morton Ind. Exchanged at Vicksburg.His unit Consolidated with the 12 Kentucky Cav later. I believe he was captured at the Battle of Nashville he took the Oath on Feb 1 1865. He was 16 when he joined at Keesburg, Logan Co KY.
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Contact Name:
Larry E Fugate
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Date Added: 12/10/2005
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Company I
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William Milton Patton - Private
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He was captured while on Morgan's Ohio raid sent to Camp Douglas. He later received a pension and a pow medal from the state of Tennessee. While trying to escape the Union ambush his horse fell on him pinned him and broke both legs.
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Contact Name:
William Patton Gaffney
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Date Added: 9/26/2009
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Company K
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Peter Cain - Private
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He was in the 40 Tennessee regiment until it was split up in 1862. He was then in the 8th Ky mounted infantry.He survived the war and died in Bardstown Ky in 1891.
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Contact Name:
Michael Cain
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Date Added: 2/12/2011
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