The Civil War in Monroe County

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A Brief History of the Civil War in Monroe Co

Monroe County strongly supported the Union during the War Between the States, I beleive more men served in the Union army than in any other county in Kentucky, I beleive I read there were over 800 men who joined the Union army from Monroe County. The few men who enlisted in the Confederate army were from the Southern sympathetic areas that bordered the Cumberland River in eastern Monroe County, in the Vernon, Turkey Neck Bend and Center Point areas. Most of the men who joined the Union army were either in the 9th Ky Infantry, which John Fraim of the Flippin area was most responsible for recruiting, the 37th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, which was organized in Glasgow, Barren County, Ky. in 1863 and the 5th Kentucky, which was made up primarily of Cumberland, and Monroe County boys. From official reports I could send you breif histories of these regiments from the Official Records and you may use them. To tell you breifly the 9th Ky Infantry saw battle at Shiloh, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga among many other places. The 5th Ky Cav operated at first mainly in Tennessee and Kentucky, later they were with Sherman and his march up thru the Carolinas. The 37th Ky. was organized in Glasgow at Fort Williams in 1863, a fort constructed there to show a strong presence in an area that had a lot of Southern sympathizers. The 37th Ky Cav were among other units used in chasing Morgan's Raiders through out Kentucky.

Civil War Burial Sites in Monroe Co, KY
As Compiled by Scott Fife, Commander, Camp Joe H. Lewis, #874 Glasgow KY
Sons of Confederate Veterans

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AKERSVILLE CEMETERY
On Hwy 87 in Akersville

Pvt Lee A Bratton Co C 9 Ky Inf USA 1823-1898
Pvt Bailey P Cosby Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1913
  Joseph A Crabtree Co F 1 Tn Mtd Inf USA 1842-1904
Corp Joel Y Driver Co H 5 Ky Cav USA 1837-1911
Pvt John H Driver Co H 5 Ky Cav USA 1824-1902
Pvt William R Driver Co H 5 Ky Cav USa 1824-1911
  G R Drury Co D 8 Tn Mtd Inf USA  
  T J Houser Co A 8 Tn Mtd Inf USA  
Pvt Frederick H Mahanna Co I 9 Ky Inf USA  
  B R Meador Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1828-1900
Pvt Samuel W Patterson Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1829-1902
Pvt Johnson Roark Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-1901

ATHENS CHURCH CEMETERY
At Ebenezer near the church across the road from Ebenezer Cemetery

Pvt *George W Proffitt Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1806-1888
Sgt James H Simpson Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Rawdon Woods Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1843-1933

*Who also had four sons to serve in the Union Army, Jackson J, Thos W, William T, & Harmon.

BAILEY CEMERTY
On Hwy 216 in the Hestand area

  Allen Dicken Co C 12 Ky Inf USA Pvt
Pvt Levi Grissom Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-1911
Pvt Austin Spear Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
  *Bennett Spear       1820-1892
Pvt Nicholas Pennington Co B ( Ky Inf USA 1846-1928
Pvt George W Spear Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Hulet Spear Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Jiles J Wallen (Walden?) Co C
Co E
32 Ky Inf &
13 Ky Cav
USA  

*Deputy Sheriff of Monroe County in 1861-1862, elected Sheriff in 1862 served through the Civil War, was a strong union man.

BAXTER CEMETERY
Located in the Hestand community off Hwy 163 just to the south from the post office.

Corp Hamilton Savage Baxter Co K 37 Ky Inf USA 1843-1915

BEAUTIFUL HOME CHURCH CEMETERY
On Beautiful Home Church Road near Gamaliel

Pvt *John W Jackson Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1838-1920
Pvt John H Kingrey Co C 37 Ky Inf USA  

*Captured at Lafayette, GA in 1864, sent to Andersonville Prison in GA. Released and paroled at Vicksburg. Survived the sinking of the Sultana on the Mississippi River Near Memphis on April 27, 1865. Mustered out in OH in May 1865.

BEECH GROVE CEMETERY
Across the road from Beech Grove Church near Boles

Pvt E W Powell Co A 33 Ky Inf USA 1835-1917
Pvt Logan Huffines Co B 37 Ky Inf USA 1852-1926

BETHLEHEM CHURCH CEMETERY
Located on Les Williams Road on the hill above the church west of Mud Lick

Pvt John C Carder Co G 9 Ky Inf USA  
Lt Charles A McCue Co C
Co G
37 Ky Inf &
9Ky Inf
USA  
Pvt Samuel R chism Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1862
Pvt James H England Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1837-1896
Pvt Joseph S England Co F 9 Ky Inf USA 1837-1912
  J H Eubank Co K 9 Ky Inf USA  
Corp Isaac V Headrick Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-1932
  Joseph M Thomas Co C 37 Ky Inf USA 1836-1912
Pvt Joseph F Turner Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1842-1926
Corp Robert H Trivett Co F 9 Ky Inf USA  

BILLINGSLEY CEMETERY
Off of Hwy 678 behing Mt Hermon Radio Club in Mt Hermon.

  J M Billingsley Co F 21 Ky Inf USA  

BROWN CEMETERY
On old Brown farm now owned by Jack Bartley on a prong of Little Sulphur Creek.

Corp Moses Brown Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt James F Pitcock Co H 9 Ky Inf USA Killed at Shiloh Apr 7, 1862

BROWN CEMETERY
Located in the Strodetown community off of Hwy 63

Pvt Samuel Adams Co B 5 Ky Cav USA Died 1862
Corp John T Emberton Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt William B Emberton Co B 5 Ky Cav USA Died 1862
Pvt J. C. Jackson Co F 9 Ky Inf USA  
Corp William Martin Co C 37 Ky Inf USA 1843-1917

BUSH CEMETERY
On west side of hwy 87 on Euel Hunt farm south of Fountain Run about a minle

Pvt W. T. Bush Co K 9 Ky Inf USA  

BUSHLONG CEMETERY
On the Rondell Bushlong farm in the Mt Gilead community

Pvt Joseph C Bushlong Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1827-1891

CARTER CEMETERY
On the Earl Carter farm off Hwy 163 between Mt Gilead and Rockbridge

Pvt Parker M Murphey Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1919

CENTER POINT CEMETERY
At Center point

  John Thomas Short Co C 28 Tn Inf CSA 1845-1919

CHISM CEMETERY
At the Lee Stephens farm on Hwy 100 (Gamaliel-Tompkinsville Rd)

  W. S. (Shanghai) Cloyd Co J 1 Ky Cav USA 1839-1899
  James T Gee Co H 26 Ky Inf USA 1844-1901

COE FAMILY CEMETERY
Kettle Creek area, this cemetery as of late has been used as a hog lot. Confederate guerillas, Biil Ashlock and Beanie Short were buried here after being killed by a group of men headed by Shangahi Cloyd.

  Bill Ashlock   Guerilla    
  Isaiah Coe   Tn CSA  
  George H "Beanie" Short   28 Tn Inf CSA  

COMBS CEMETERY
On farm previously owned by Gip Hestand in the Hestand area

Pvt John M White Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  

COMPTON CEMETERY
Located off the jess Compton Road east of Gamaliel

  Jesse Compton   37 Ky Inf USA 1851-1939

DENTON - GOODMAN CEMETERY
Located on east sie of hwy 87 (Akersville Rd) in Fountain Run

Pvt Josiah Steen Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  

EBENEZER CEMETERY
Across the road from the Ebenezer Churches

Pvt Nelson Crow Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1834-1901
Pvt A. G. Denham Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Thomas Ford Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1843-1917
Corp Arnold Hall Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1843-1917

ENGLAND CEMETERY
On the Wander Comer Hagan farm off of Virgil Comer Road north of Gamaliel

Pvt Daniel Fox, Sr Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1842-1905

FLIPPIN CHURCH OF CHRIST CEMETERY
Hwy 249 in Flippin

Sgt James T Beal Co B 5 Ky CAv USA 1838-1927
  I. N. Denham     USA 1829-1897
Pvt Walter Kirby Co D 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1897
Pvt John H Short Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1835-1888

FLIPPIN CEMETERY
Located in Tompkinsville behine the old hospital

QM Sgt Charles W Moody Co C 5 Ky Cav USA 1836-1902

FORD CEMETERY
On Henson Road in the Hestand area, nearby was the skirmish at Moores Farm on June 6, 1862 between O.P. hamilton's confederate partisan rangers and the Co I of the 9th Pa Cav.

  George W Ford Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
  Lisby Milton Ford Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
  Loyd Jackson Co B 4 Tn Cav USA  
  William Jackson Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  

FOUNTAIN RUN CEMETERY
Main Street (Hwy 87) Fountain Run

Pvt William T Devasher Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1837-1915
Pvt William H Faulkner Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1833-1911
Pvt Milton J Goad Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1837-1923
Pvt John H Hagan Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1844-1910
Pvt *Johnny Pickett Harrison Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1843-1931
Pvt Lycurgis Johnson Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-1927
Corp William H Seay Co I 9 Ky Inf USA 1842-1904
Lt Francis m Stone Co A 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1908
Pvt John J Wheat Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1839-1913

*Reinterred from the Harrison-Simmons Ce., Capitol Hill area of Barren County.

FRAIM CEMETERY
At northwest corner of intersection of Hwy 100 and Hwy 678 at Flippin

Pvt George T Fraim Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-
  *John M Fraim     USA 1813-1888
Pvt William H Hughes Co B 37 Ky Inf USA 1845-1909
Lt Elijah A Purcell Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1835-1901
Pvt Marcus Right Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  

*Helped organize 9th Ky Inf at Camp Anderson on his farm in Flippin

GAMALIEL CEMETERY
Located on West Main Street in Gamaliel

Corp LSamuel R Comer Co B 5 Ky Cav USA Died 1898
Pvt James Smith Creek Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1916
Corp George Crow Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Grant Crow Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1840-1912
Pvt Meredith Davis Co D 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Hiram H Deckard Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1830-1920
Pvt William L Dickinson Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1839-1913
Corp John E Dotson Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1877
Pvt Andrew Eakle Co F 21 Ky Inf USA 1832-1888
Pvt Benjamin C Ford Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1840-1919
Pvt Henry J Fowler Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1845-1883
Corp Hiram L Gist Co D 9 Ky Inf USA 1843-1907
  Shepherd Gum Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1937
Sgt Jasper hays Co D &
Co I
9 Ky Inf &
23 Ky Inf
USA 1838-1908
  Benjamin J Holcomb Co F 52 Ky Inf USA 1842-1901
Pvt Cyrus T Jenkins Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1841-1901
Corp George P Jenkins Co D 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Nathaniel Jones Co B 5 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Thomas W Proffitt Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1833-1916
  James J Quinn Co H 25 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Silas Ray Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1836-1862
Pvt John W Taylor Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1845-1890
  William H Vaughn Co A 8 Tn Mtd Inf USA 1845-1930
Pvt robert Welch Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  

GEE CEMETERY
Turkey Neck Bend on farm once owned by Ferd Williams

  *James M McMillin     CSA 1840-1862

*Killed at Franklin, Tennessee while commanding company of Confederate cavalry Dec. 12, 1862.

HALE CEMETERY
In the Ebenezer community on Vincent road

Pvt John Hale Co C 37 Ky Inf USA 1844-1913

HAMMER CEMETERY
On Cloyds Ridge across from Old Temple Hill Church

Pvt Judge U Hammer Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1843-

HARLAN CROSS ROADS CEMETERY
At Harlan Cross Roads

Pvt George W Jackson Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1842-1928
Pvt Jesse J Jackson Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1832-0911
  John Kingrey Co C 37 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Elisha Rhoton Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1828-1918
  Joseph Steart     USA 1843
  J. W. Tolman Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  

Note: There is a Pvt J. M Tolman in Co D, 9 Ky Inf, same man?

HENDLEY CEMETERY
On Lebanon Church Road about a quarter mile west of New Design church

Pvt Abel G Coley Co I 9 Ky Inf USA 1833-1900

HENSON CEMETERY
Located atop a hill across Hwy 163 from Germany Church of Christ in Hestand

Major W., J. Henson   9 Ky Inf USA  

HUNT CEMETERY
In Hestand area off of Hwy 163 on Capshaw Hollow Road

Pvt William Sprowl Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1834-1884

ISENBERG CEMETERY
On Hwy 1366 (County House Road) in the Emberton community
table> John A. W. Goode Co K In Reg USA 1839-1915 Pvt Harvey D Isenberg Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1909 Pvt John M Isenberg Co G 9 Ky Inf USA Corp James M Proffitt Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1839-1921 Corp George W Slaughter Co G 9 Ky Inf USA Pvt W. T. Turner Co H 9 Ky Kif USA

JOSEPH JACKSON GRAVE
On Merritt Harlan farm between Sulphur Lick and Mt Hermon

Pvt Jospeh Jackson Co K 5 Ky Cav USA  

LEBANON CHURCH CEMETERY
On Hwy 100 about a mile east of Fountain Run across Lebanon Ch. rd. from Ftn. Run Pk.

Pvt Lucian Gillenwater Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1927

LEE - SADLER CEMETERY
At end of Deep Ford Road near the Barren River

Corp John Marsh Co A 9 Ky Inf USA  

LIBERTY CHURCH CEMETERY
Across the road (Mill Creek Rd) from Mill Creek Church and the entrance to Tompkinsville Park. Noth about a quarter f a mile was the site of a Civil War Skirmish involving Margan's Cavalry and the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry on July 9, 1862.

Capt *William T Bryan Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Lt Johnathan S Harlan Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  

*Killed at Stones River, Tennessee on Jan 1 or 2, 1863, age 37 years.

SIS McCOY CEMETERY
In the Elbow community near the cumberland River on Mrs Pearl Biggerstaff's farm

Pvt James P McCoy Co A 37 Ky Inf    

McPHERSON CEMETERY
Between Sulphur Lick and Forkton on a farm formally owned by Smith Bushlong

  George Sims   21 Ky Inf USA  

MILL CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
Mill Creek Road near the entrance to the Tompkinsville Park and across the road from Liberty Church Cemetery. Just to the north of these churches along Mill Creek Road is the site of a Civil War Skirmish when in July 9, 1862 Morgan's Cavalry defeated a detachment of Union Cavalry.

Pvt Isaac Hix Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
  Jno Jackson Co B 9 Ky Inf USA Died 1861
Pvt George W Marshall Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt JC (Isaac?) Pennington Co A 37 Ky Inf USA  
  Jacob Rhoten Co D 1 Tn Inf USA  
  Jere Rush Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt Vincin B Whitley Co D 9 Ky Inf USA  

MILLER CEMETERY
On the Heod Holoway farm in the rockbridge community

Pvt William H Miller Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1833-1899
Pvt Martin T McGuire Co C 37 Ky Inf USA  

MITCHELL CEMETERY
In the Mud Lick area on the Lee Isenberg farm

Lt John W Combs So H 9 Ky Inf USA 1828-1895
Sgt John H Jackson Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1828-1865
Pvt Isaac Mitchell Co G 9 Ky Inf USA Died 1861
Pvt James Mitchell Co G 9 Ky Inf USA Died 1864

MOUNT GILEAD CHURCH CEMETERY
Off Hwy 163 in the Mt Gileap community

Corp *George W Bushlong Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1831-1862
Corp Isaac Maines Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1844-1909
Pvt **Hulitt Brown Do C 37 Ky Inf USA 1842-1908
  William H Harlan Co A 52 Ky Inf USA 1846
  WA Humes Co I 13 Ky Cav USA  
  Labon Pitcock Co K 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Francis Harris Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1832-1909
Sgt Jacob Bushlong Co B 5 Ky Cav USA 1836-1904

*Died of disease, Taylorsville, KY. Oct 10, 1862 **Captured at Glasgow by Hughes Partisan Rangers released at Kettle Creek.

MOUNT ZION CEMETERY
Hwy 1049 just off Hwy 163 north of Tompkinsville a few miles

Sgt William T Hammer Co K 5 Ky Cav USA  
Sgt David W Harlan Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
Corp Hiram H Harlan Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Jesse W Kellon Co K 5Ky Cav USA  
Corp Richard M McMurty Co K 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt *Sanuel H Page Co K 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Charles Tooley Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  

* Died in Georgia during the war

NEAL CEMETERY
Hwy 100 in the Flippin community

Pvt James G Agers Co G 9 Ky Inf USA  
  William Ellison Brooks Co D 8 Tn Cav USA  
  JW Burnett Co F 1 Tn Mtd Inf USA  
  James K Cook Co E 1 Tn Mtd Inf USA  
Pvt Isaac N Evans Co A 9 Ky Inf USA  
  Edmon G Green   5 Tn Cav USA  
  Mathias K Hale Co I 8 Tn Cav USA  
QM Sgt Milton B Hays Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Harvey S Turner Co F 9 Ky Inf USA  

NEW SALEM CHURCH CEMETERY (TURNER CEMTERY)
On New Salem Church Road between Jeffrey and Mud Lick

  Jim Albany     USA 1846-1926
Pvt Felix Myers Co G 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1910
Pvt Reuben J Clarkson Co F 9 Ky Inf USA 1840-1910

OAK HILL CEMETERY
In Tompkinsville,/B>

Sgt LJ (Jones L?) Kirkpatrick Co A 37 Ky Inf USA 1827-1904
Lt Alonzo H Chism Co A 37 Ky Inf USA 1841-1913
  B Chism Co F 21 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt John B Denham Co K 9 Ky Inf USA 1842-1902

OLD EBENEZER CEMETERY
Also know as SMITHWICK or ADAMS CEMETERY
On the road behind the Ebenezer churches

Pvt John Adams Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1834-1903
Corp William Adams Co K 37 Ky Inf USA 1845-1916
  ED Chandler Co D 6 In Cav USA  
PVT William Howard Mathenia Co A 37 Ky Inf USA 1839-1902

OLD MAXEY CEMETERY
Located in Tompkinsville

Pvt Arthur B Fraley Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
  James C Green   17 Tn Inf CSA 1840-1886
  John T (Rocky John) McMillin   16 Mo Inf CSA 1827-1900
Corp James T Walden Co B 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1898

OLD MOUNT HERMON CEMETERY
On Hwy 2449 at Monroe Church on the Meshack Creek Rd.

Pvt Samuel Page Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1831-1897
  Thomas A Baskett   12 Tn Cav CSA 1838-1907
Corp John T Gentry Co C 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Thomas Hagan Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt William Tooley Co H 9 Ky Inf USA  
Corp George B Page Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1826-1923
Pvt John S Sartim Co H 9 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Andrew J Sartin Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  
Pvt Isham Tooley Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1821-1900
Pvt John Alexander Murray Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1836-1908
Sgt Theodore Tooley Co H 9 Ky Inf USA 1836-1918

OLD MULKEY CEMETERY
At Old Mulkey Meeting House State Historical Park on Hwy 1446 south of Tompkinsville

Pvt William J Emmert Co B 9 Ky Inf USA  
Pvt William B Steen Co K 5 Ky Cav USA 1814-1865
Pvt *Edward Stewart Co B 5 Ky Cav USA  

* Died of disease near Tompkinsville, March 10, 1862

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