Moreau B. Pulliam

Birth Date

1813

Death Date

1865-01-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Mercer County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Ann Wood Pulliam in Mercer County, Kentucky, on March 17, 1836. Married to Louisa M. Alexander Pulliam in Mercer County on September 3, 1853. Father of Judson Pulliam, Robert Pulliam, John Pulliam, and Davis Pulliam. Carpenter in Mercer County in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Mercer County in 1850. Carpenter in Mercer County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Mercer County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private, sergeant major, first lieutenant, and commissary from September 22, 1862 to January 11, 1865. Captured in Monroe County, Tennessee, on October 20, 1863. Exchanged in 1865. Died of disease on January 11, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1, p. 273B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 21.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 47B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, County Marriages, Film 000191855.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, County Marriages, Film 000191861.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 110.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 272-73.
"Moreau B. Pulliam (1813-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 100136981, accessed August 28, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100136981.

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction