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PVT William Price

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PVT William Price

Birth
Kentucky, USA
Death
Oct 1892 (aged 54–55)
Illinois, USA
Burial
Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
Plot
OP Lot 536
Memorial ID
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U.S. COLORED INFANTRY CIVIL WAR VETERAN

This memorial is entirely speculative, based on best evidence!!

Rootsweb: "PRICE, William H. Co. D 109 U.S.C.I."
Cem rec: 1st grave, 2nd row, north side, 74yo
[this is confusing since a Wm H. died in the State Hospital in 1924, rather than 1892]

birth yr est. based on colored troops list:
U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864
Name: Private William Price
Enlistment Date: 25 Jun 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville, Kentucky
Owner's Name: John Price
(Born Russell Co. KY, 27yo, farmhand) [If so, birth yr 1837]

1870 census: Loami, Sangamon, Illinois
Race: Black
William Price 36 male, b. KY
Mary Price 25
Thomas Price 9/12
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"109th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

Organized at Louisville, Ky., July 5, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1864. Martindale's Provisional Brigade, 18th Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps and Dept. of Texas, to March, 1866.

SERVICE.-Duty at Louisville and Louisa, Ky., till October, 1864. Ordered to join Army of the Potomac before Petersburg and Richmond, Va. Duty at Deep Bottom and in trenches before Richmond north of the James River till March, 1865. Actions at Fort Harrison December 10, 1864, and January 23, 1865. Moved to Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run, March 29-31. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty at Petersburg and City Point till May. Embarked for Texas May 25, arriving at Indianola, Texas, June 25. Duty there and on the Rio Grande, Texas, till March, 1866. Mustered out March 21, 1866. --- from Least We Forget website
U.S. COLORED INFANTRY CIVIL WAR VETERAN

This memorial is entirely speculative, based on best evidence!!

Rootsweb: "PRICE, William H. Co. D 109 U.S.C.I."
Cem rec: 1st grave, 2nd row, north side, 74yo
[this is confusing since a Wm H. died in the State Hospital in 1924, rather than 1892]

birth yr est. based on colored troops list:
U.S., Descriptive Lists of Colored Volunteer Army Soldiers, 1864
Name: Private William Price
Enlistment Date: 25 Jun 1864
Enlistment Place: Louisville, Kentucky
Owner's Name: John Price
(Born Russell Co. KY, 27yo, farmhand) [If so, birth yr 1837]

1870 census: Loami, Sangamon, Illinois
Race: Black
William Price 36 male, b. KY
Mary Price 25
Thomas Price 9/12
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"109th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry

Organized at Louisville, Ky., July 5, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1864. Martindale's Provisional Brigade, 18th Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps and Dept. of Texas, to March, 1866.

SERVICE.-Duty at Louisville and Louisa, Ky., till October, 1864. Ordered to join Army of the Potomac before Petersburg and Richmond, Va. Duty at Deep Bottom and in trenches before Richmond north of the James River till March, 1865. Actions at Fort Harrison December 10, 1864, and January 23, 1865. Moved to Hatcher's Run March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run, March 29-31. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Duty at Petersburg and City Point till May. Embarked for Texas May 25, arriving at Indianola, Texas, June 25. Duty there and on the Rio Grande, Texas, till March, 1866. Mustered out March 21, 1866. --- from Least We Forget website

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