6th Kentucky Cavalry

Joined in Fayette Co. Kentucky December 23, 1861 as a Lt. Made Captain May 1862. Transferred to invalid Corps. as a Captain in middle of 1863. Mustered out December 23, 1864. Was over 50 years old when he joined. Told them he was forty.

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His last name is spelt at least two different ways. Gillum & Gilliam. His brother Ancil Gilliam enlisted in Company H, 7th Kentucky Infantry (Union). Cornelius C Gillum is buried in the Clouse Cemetery located in Gray, Knox County, Kentucky.

Enlisted in 1862. First name may be recorded as 'Hawood' or 'Howard,' depending on how handwriting is interpreted. Moved to Spivey (now named Hermitage Springs), Clay County Tennessee after the war. Was from Jackson County Tennessee prior to the war, and family was said to have moved into Kentucky during the war.

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Enlisted as a Private on 30 July 1862. Enlisted in Company I, 6th Cavalry Regiment Kentucky on 15 Sept 1862. Mustered Out Company I, 6th Cavalry Regiment Kentucky on 6 Sept 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky. Son of Freeman and Rachel Coyle Garner. Married Emma Elizabeth Watson. Born 16 Jul 1846 in Kentucky and died 24 Nov 1926 in Grays Harbor County, Washington. Mr Garner was a Grand Army veteran, having served three years and two months in the Union army during the Civil War.

James Rountree was born 12 Sept 1843 in Edmonson County Ky near Mammoth Cave, son of Thomas Rountree & Elizabeth Blair. James enlisted in Co.I, 6th KY Calvary on 19 Dec 1862 at Munfordsville, KY. Transferred to Co.I, 27th KY Infantry on 12 Feb 1863 while they were stationed in Mumfordsville near his home. 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to June, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to December, 1864. 2nd Division, District of Kentucky and Dept. of Kentucky, to March, 1865. Participated in Knoxville & East Tennessee campaigns of 1863 and servied in Northern Georgia & Alabama in 1864 as part of the army of Ohio. Joined with General Sherman's Army in the March to Atlanta in May 1864. Mustered out March 29, 1865. James Rountree died on 2 May 1923 in Edmonson County, KY. He was the brother of my 3rd great grandfather Pleasant Rountree.

Enlisted as a Private on 16 August 1862 in Company K, 6th Cavalry Regiment Kentucky on 25 January 1863. Discharged Company K, 6th Cavalry Regiment Kentucky on 27 May 1865.

Cavalry are formed into 'Troops', not Companies. Francis served with Troop K.

Ben Hardin Whitehouse rode with Captain Ellis Harper's Partisan Raiders after the war. He was a yankee soldier in the 6th Ky Cav Co 'K'. He was discharged from that unit came home to Boyle County Kentucky and in an argument over his wife with a man named Pipes who had fought with Morgan, he killed Pipes. Governor Bramlett issued an indictment for his arrestand it is said he packed up his new wife Cornelia Minor and what the could carry on horseback and ended up in Richland in late 1865. Harper and his men were not quite finished fighting yet and for some reason he joined in and became one of Harper's Boys and changed his name by dropping the Whitehouse name.

Son of Silas M. Gibson & Casandra Wiley, ( my wife's ancestors:) Robert A. Gibson Residence Mercer or Washington Counties in Kentucky Enlisted on 8/22/1862 at Louisville, KY as a Private. On 9/15/1862 he mustered into 'L' Co. KY 6th Cavalry He was Mustered Out on 7/14/1865 at Edgefield, TN.

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