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CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH FORD DOUGLAS, BATTERY COMMANDER
(All Officers In This Light Artillery Battery Were Colored)
INDEPENDENT BATTERY U.S. COLORED
TROOPS (a.k.a., Douglas's Battery)
Organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 23, 1864. Attached to District of North Kansas, Dept. of Kansas,
to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Leavenworth and at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., until July, 1865. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
H. Ford Douglas was one of four black soldiers from Boone County who enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry. An intelligent man, Douglas eventually became an officer and raised a company of artillery. Douglas died in Atchison, Kan. of pneumonia in 1865 and is buried in an unmarked grave. "He was buried somewhere but nobody knows where"
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Suggested edit: Hezekiah Ford Douglas was married Oct. 26, 1857 in Racine, Wisconsin, to Sattira Steele. According to the marriage license in Wisconsin state records, his parents were William and Mary Douglas (on the certificate, his name is spelled Douglass, but contemporary Chicago newspaper accounts show it as Douglas). On the certificate, Sattira's parents are named as Alfred and Maria Steele.
Contributor: AlyceBarry (49350359) •
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Did not die in Atchison, Kansas but on Dacotah Street in Leavenworth, KS.
See Leavenworth Bulletin, Sat.,Nov. 11, 1865 DIED: Douglas--this Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, at his residence on Dacotah street, Capt. H. Ford Douglas, late of the First (Colored) Battery.
"So sleep the brac, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest." Funeral will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 o'clock P.M. Friends of the family are invited.
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CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH FORD DOUGLAS, BATTERY COMMANDER
(All Officers In This Light Artillery Battery Were Colored)
INDEPENDENT BATTERY U.S. COLORED
TROOPS (a.k.a., Douglas's Battery)
Organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 23, 1864. Attached to District of North Kansas, Dept. of Kansas,
to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Leavenworth and at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., until July, 1865. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
H. Ford Douglas was one of four black soldiers from Boone County who enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry. An intelligent man, Douglas eventually became an officer and raised a company of artillery. Douglas died in Atchison, Kan. of pneumonia in 1865 and is buried in an unmarked grave. "He was buried somewhere but nobody knows where"
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Suggested edit: Hezekiah Ford Douglas was married Oct. 26, 1857 in Racine, Wisconsin, to Sattira Steele. According to the marriage license in Wisconsin state records, his parents were William and Mary Douglas (on the certificate, his name is spelled Douglass, but contemporary Chicago newspaper accounts show it as Douglas). On the certificate, Sattira's parents are named as Alfred and Maria Steele.
Contributor: AlyceBarry (49350359) •
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Did not die in Atchison, Kansas but on Dacotah Street in Leavenworth, KS.
See Leavenworth Bulletin, Sat.,Nov. 11, 1865 DIED: Douglas--this Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, at his residence on Dacotah street, Capt. H. Ford Douglas, late of the First (Colored) Battery.
"So sleep the brac, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest." Funeral will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 o'clock P.M. Friends of the family are invited.
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****USCT Virtual Cemetery Location****
CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH FORD DOUGLAS, BATTERY COMMANDER
(All Officers In This Light Artillery Battery Were Colored)
INDEPENDENT BATTERY U.S. COLORED
TROOPS (a.k.a., Douglas's Battery)
Organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 23, 1864. Attached to District of North Kansas, Dept. of Kansas,
to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Leavenworth and at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., until July, 1865. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
H. Ford Douglas was one of four black soldiers from Boone County who enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry. An intelligent man, Douglas eventually became an officer and raised a company of artillery. Douglas died in Atchison, Kan. of pneumonia in 1865 and is buried in an unmarked grave. "He was buried somewhere but nobody knows where"
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Suggested edit: Hezekiah Ford Douglas was married Oct. 26, 1857 in Racine, Wisconsin, to Sattira Steele. According to the marriage license in Wisconsin state records, his parents were William and Mary Douglas (on the certificate, his name is spelled Douglass, but contemporary Chicago newspaper accounts show it as Douglas). On the certificate, Sattira's parents are named as Alfred and Maria Steele.
Contributor: AlyceBarry (49350359) •
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Did not die in Atchison, Kansas but on Dacotah Street in Leavenworth, KS.
See Leavenworth Bulletin, Sat.,Nov. 11, 1865 DIED: Douglas--this Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, at his residence on Dacotah street, Capt. H. Ford Douglas, late of the First (Colored) Battery.
"So sleep the brac, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest." Funeral will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 o'clock P.M. Friends of the family are invited.
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CAPTAIN HEZEKIAH FORD DOUGLAS, BATTERY COMMANDER
(All Officers In This Light Artillery Battery Were Colored)
INDEPENDENT BATTERY U.S. COLORED
TROOPS (a.k.a., Douglas's Battery)
Organized at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 23, 1864. Attached to District of North Kansas, Dept. of Kansas,
to July, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Leavenworth and at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., until July, 1865. Mustered out July 22, 1865.
H. Ford Douglas was one of four black soldiers from Boone County who enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry. An intelligent man, Douglas eventually became an officer and raised a company of artillery. Douglas died in Atchison, Kan. of pneumonia in 1865 and is buried in an unmarked grave. "He was buried somewhere but nobody knows where"
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Suggested edit: Hezekiah Ford Douglas was married Oct. 26, 1857 in Racine, Wisconsin, to Sattira Steele. According to the marriage license in Wisconsin state records, his parents were William and Mary Douglas (on the certificate, his name is spelled Douglass, but contemporary Chicago newspaper accounts show it as Douglas). On the certificate, Sattira's parents are named as Alfred and Maria Steele.
Contributor: AlyceBarry (49350359) •
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Did not die in Atchison, Kansas but on Dacotah Street in Leavenworth, KS.
See Leavenworth Bulletin, Sat.,Nov. 11, 1865 DIED: Douglas--this Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, at his residence on Dacotah street, Capt. H. Ford Douglas, late of the First (Colored) Battery.
"So sleep the brac, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest." Funeral will take place tomorrow (Sunday) at 3 o'clock P.M. Friends of the family are invited.
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