Merritt Allen is buried in the National Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Section O, grave site #175. The Register of Deaths of Volunteers 1861-1865 recorded he died in General Hospital No. 2 at Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky of pneumonia.
Merritt Allen age 20 of Kenockee Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, enlisted on 11 August 1862 into the 22nd Michigan Infantry Volunteers, which was mustered into service on 29 August 1862 in Pontiac, Michigan and was commanded by the former Michigan Republican Governor Moses Wisner. (1858-1861).
Colonel Moses Wisner, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and who had been the first Republican Governor of Michigan, declined to run for a second term and instead raised the 22nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Wisner himself died of Typhoid fever on 4 January 1863 while encamped for the winter at Lexington, Kentucky never to see any action, he is buried in Pontiac, Michigan.
The 22nd Michigan Infantry was in winter encampment at Lexington, Kentucky from 26 October 1862 until 21 February 1863.
Merritt and Orlando Brown, age 19, of Kenockee (who would later marry Merritt's younger half sister Persis Allen in 1866), were both in the 22nd Michigan, Company C, enlisting together on 11 August 1862.
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Name: Pvt Merritt Allen
Age at Death 20
Burial Date 1/7/1863
Disposition Number 2626
Interment Location
Section: N
Lot: National
Grave: 175
Merritt Allen age 20 of Kenockee Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, enlisted on 11 August 1862 into the 22nd Michigan Infantry Volunteers, which was mustered into service on 29 August 1862 in Pontiac, Michigan and was commanded by the former Michigan Republican Governor Moses Wisner. (1858-1861).
Colonel Moses Wisner, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and who had been the first Republican Governor of Michigan, declined to run for a second term and instead raised the 22nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Wisner himself died of Typhoid fever on 4 January 1863 while encamped for the winter at Lexington, Kentucky never to see any action, he is buried in Pontiac, Michigan.
The 22nd Michigan Infantry was in winter encampment at Lexington, Kentucky from 26 October 1862 until 21 February 1863.
Merritt and Orlando Brown, age 19, of Kenockee (who would later marry Merritt's younger half sister Persis Allen in 1866), were both in the 22nd Michigan, Company C, enlisting together on 11 August 1862.
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Name: Pvt Merritt Allen
Age at Death 20
Burial Date 1/7/1863
Disposition Number 2626
Interment Location
Section: N
Lot: National
Grave: 175
Merritt Allen is buried in the National Cemetery, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky Section O, grave site #175. The Register of Deaths of Volunteers 1861-1865 recorded he died in General Hospital No. 2 at Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky of pneumonia.
Merritt Allen age 20 of Kenockee Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, enlisted on 11 August 1862 into the 22nd Michigan Infantry Volunteers, which was mustered into service on 29 August 1862 in Pontiac, Michigan and was commanded by the former Michigan Republican Governor Moses Wisner. (1858-1861).
Colonel Moses Wisner, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and who had been the first Republican Governor of Michigan, declined to run for a second term and instead raised the 22nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Wisner himself died of Typhoid fever on 4 January 1863 while encamped for the winter at Lexington, Kentucky never to see any action, he is buried in Pontiac, Michigan.
The 22nd Michigan Infantry was in winter encampment at Lexington, Kentucky from 26 October 1862 until 21 February 1863.
Merritt and Orlando Brown, age 19, of Kenockee (who would later marry Merritt's younger half sister Persis Allen in 1866), were both in the 22nd Michigan, Company C, enlisting together on 11 August 1862.
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Name: Pvt Merritt Allen
Age at Death 20
Burial Date 1/7/1863
Disposition Number 2626
Interment Location
Section: N
Lot: National
Grave: 175
Merritt Allen age 20 of Kenockee Township, St. Clair County, Michigan, enlisted on 11 August 1862 into the 22nd Michigan Infantry Volunteers, which was mustered into service on 29 August 1862 in Pontiac, Michigan and was commanded by the former Michigan Republican Governor Moses Wisner. (1858-1861).
Colonel Moses Wisner, a friend of Abraham Lincoln and who had been the first Republican Governor of Michigan, declined to run for a second term and instead raised the 22nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry. Colonel Wisner himself died of Typhoid fever on 4 January 1863 while encamped for the winter at Lexington, Kentucky never to see any action, he is buried in Pontiac, Michigan.
The 22nd Michigan Infantry was in winter encampment at Lexington, Kentucky from 26 October 1862 until 21 February 1863.
Merritt and Orlando Brown, age 19, of Kenockee (who would later marry Merritt's younger half sister Persis Allen in 1866), were both in the 22nd Michigan, Company C, enlisting together on 11 August 1862.
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Name: Pvt Merritt Allen
Age at Death 20
Burial Date 1/7/1863
Disposition Number 2626
Interment Location
Section: N
Lot: National
Grave: 175
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