Abram Brooks was a farmer in Brooks, Kentucky in far northern Bullitt County. The farm consisted of 200 acres along Bluelick Road near Carter Lane about three-quarters of a mile north of the present-day John Harper Highway.
The farm fronted on the path of the Wilderness Road about one mile north of the fortified station built by Joseph Brooks, an original settler and the great-grandfather of Abram Field Brooks.
During the Civil War Abram was a member of Company D, Butler's First Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate). The online military archive Fold3.com contains seven pages of military records which note that Abram was enlisted for three years as a corporal on September 2, 1862 in Lexington, KY by General Buford. Most of the records are muster rolls and pay records for A. F. Brooks. The record for May & June 1864 reflects Abram's promotion to Sargent. The last record describes him as Abram F. Brooks of Bullitt Co, KY, dark hair and complexion, blue eyes, and with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches; this record states that Abram surrendered at Athens, GA on May 12, 1865 and signed an oath of allegiance to the United States on May 22, 1865 at Nashville, TN. (While the surrender date of Abram's unit was certainly not one of the last of the confederate units, it was much later than that of the majority of units who surrendered within about two weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia.)
In a 1970 letter Abram's daughter Austine recalled family stories about her father's war service. She stated that "the Yankees allowed him to keep his horse, Kate". (In General Grant's proposed surrender terms he had specified that the cavalry give up their horses, but Lee noted that most of his men were farmers and needed their horses to return to planting. Grant replied that he had not known the men owned their horses and agreed to relax the terms.)
Abram married Mary "Mollie" Moore on February 13, 1872. Mollie was born and raised at the family plantation, Mound Grove, on the "South Bend" of the Arkansas River four miles northwest of the Post of Arkansas in Arkansas County, Arkansas. (Remnants of the site are found on topographical maps in these named locations: Moore Light on the river and Moore Lake and Moore Cemetery.) In 1870 Mollie graduated from Nazareth Academy, a women's boarding school operated by the Catholic Sisters of Charity near Bardstown, KY. Abram's sister, Joetta, also graduated from Nazareth in 1870 and perhaps she introduced Mollie to her brother. Some records indicate Mollie and Abram were married at Mooreland, the plantation of her paternal grandfather, Robert Irwin Moore, in Brentwood just south of Nashville, Tennessee.
The farm fronted on the path of the Wilderness Road about one mile north of the fortified station built by Joseph Brooks, an original settler and the great-grandfather of Abram Field Brooks.
During the Civil War Abram was a member of Company D, Butler's First Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate). The online military archive Fold3.com contains seven pages of military records which note that Abram was enlisted for three years as a corporal on September 2, 1862 in Lexington, KY by General Buford. Most of the records are muster rolls and pay records for A. F. Brooks. The record for May & June 1864 reflects Abram's promotion to Sargent. The last record describes him as Abram F. Brooks of Bullitt Co, KY, dark hair and complexion, blue eyes, and with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches; this record states that Abram surrendered at Athens, GA on May 12, 1865 and signed an oath of allegiance to the United States on May 22, 1865 at Nashville, TN. (While the surrender date of Abram's unit was certainly not one of the last of the confederate units, it was much later than that of the majority of units who surrendered within about two weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia.)
In a 1970 letter Abram's daughter Austine recalled family stories about her father's war service. She stated that "the Yankees allowed him to keep his horse, Kate". (In General Grant's proposed surrender terms he had specified that the cavalry give up their horses, but Lee noted that most of his men were farmers and needed their horses to return to planting. Grant replied that he had not known the men owned their horses and agreed to relax the terms.)
Abram married Mary "Mollie" Moore on February 13, 1872. Mollie was born and raised at the family plantation, Mound Grove, on the "South Bend" of the Arkansas River four miles northwest of the Post of Arkansas in Arkansas County, Arkansas. (Remnants of the site are found on topographical maps in these named locations: Moore Light on the river and Moore Lake and Moore Cemetery.) In 1870 Mollie graduated from Nazareth Academy, a women's boarding school operated by the Catholic Sisters of Charity near Bardstown, KY. Abram's sister, Joetta, also graduated from Nazareth in 1870 and perhaps she introduced Mollie to her brother. Some records indicate Mollie and Abram were married at Mooreland, the plantation of her paternal grandfather, Robert Irwin Moore, in Brentwood just south of Nashville, Tennessee.
Abram Brooks was a farmer in Brooks, Kentucky in far northern Bullitt County. The farm consisted of 200 acres along Bluelick Road near Carter Lane about three-quarters of a mile north of the present-day John Harper Highway.
The farm fronted on the path of the Wilderness Road about one mile north of the fortified station built by Joseph Brooks, an original settler and the great-grandfather of Abram Field Brooks.
During the Civil War Abram was a member of Company D, Butler's First Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate). The online military archive Fold3.com contains seven pages of military records which note that Abram was enlisted for three years as a corporal on September 2, 1862 in Lexington, KY by General Buford. Most of the records are muster rolls and pay records for A. F. Brooks. The record for May & June 1864 reflects Abram's promotion to Sargent. The last record describes him as Abram F. Brooks of Bullitt Co, KY, dark hair and complexion, blue eyes, and with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches; this record states that Abram surrendered at Athens, GA on May 12, 1865 and signed an oath of allegiance to the United States on May 22, 1865 at Nashville, TN. (While the surrender date of Abram's unit was certainly not one of the last of the confederate units, it was much later than that of the majority of units who surrendered within about two weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia.)
In a 1970 letter Abram's daughter Austine recalled family stories about her father's war service. She stated that "the Yankees allowed him to keep his horse, Kate". (In General Grant's proposed surrender terms he had specified that the cavalry give up their horses, but Lee noted that most of his men were farmers and needed their horses to return to planting. Grant replied that he had not known the men owned their horses and agreed to relax the terms.)
Abram married Mary "Mollie" Moore on February 13, 1872. Mollie was born and raised at the family plantation, Mound Grove, on the "South Bend" of the Arkansas River four miles northwest of the Post of Arkansas in Arkansas County, Arkansas. (Remnants of the site are found on topographical maps in these named locations: Moore Light on the river and Moore Lake and Moore Cemetery.) In 1870 Mollie graduated from Nazareth Academy, a women's boarding school operated by the Catholic Sisters of Charity near Bardstown, KY. Abram's sister, Joetta, also graduated from Nazareth in 1870 and perhaps she introduced Mollie to her brother. Some records indicate Mollie and Abram were married at Mooreland, the plantation of her paternal grandfather, Robert Irwin Moore, in Brentwood just south of Nashville, Tennessee.
The farm fronted on the path of the Wilderness Road about one mile north of the fortified station built by Joseph Brooks, an original settler and the great-grandfather of Abram Field Brooks.
During the Civil War Abram was a member of Company D, Butler's First Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Confederate). The online military archive Fold3.com contains seven pages of military records which note that Abram was enlisted for three years as a corporal on September 2, 1862 in Lexington, KY by General Buford. Most of the records are muster rolls and pay records for A. F. Brooks. The record for May & June 1864 reflects Abram's promotion to Sargent. The last record describes him as Abram F. Brooks of Bullitt Co, KY, dark hair and complexion, blue eyes, and with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches; this record states that Abram surrendered at Athens, GA on May 12, 1865 and signed an oath of allegiance to the United States on May 22, 1865 at Nashville, TN. (While the surrender date of Abram's unit was certainly not one of the last of the confederate units, it was much later than that of the majority of units who surrendered within about two weeks after General Robert E. Lee surrendered on April 9, 1865 at Appomattox, Virginia.)
In a 1970 letter Abram's daughter Austine recalled family stories about her father's war service. She stated that "the Yankees allowed him to keep his horse, Kate". (In General Grant's proposed surrender terms he had specified that the cavalry give up their horses, but Lee noted that most of his men were farmers and needed their horses to return to planting. Grant replied that he had not known the men owned their horses and agreed to relax the terms.)
Abram married Mary "Mollie" Moore on February 13, 1872. Mollie was born and raised at the family plantation, Mound Grove, on the "South Bend" of the Arkansas River four miles northwest of the Post of Arkansas in Arkansas County, Arkansas. (Remnants of the site are found on topographical maps in these named locations: Moore Light on the river and Moore Lake and Moore Cemetery.) In 1870 Mollie graduated from Nazareth Academy, a women's boarding school operated by the Catholic Sisters of Charity near Bardstown, KY. Abram's sister, Joetta, also graduated from Nazareth in 1870 and perhaps she introduced Mollie to her brother. Some records indicate Mollie and Abram were married at Mooreland, the plantation of her paternal grandfather, Robert Irwin Moore, in Brentwood just south of Nashville, Tennessee.
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