Frank P. Cahill

Birth Date

c1831

Death Date

c1884

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Cincinnati, Ohio, hotelkeeper and soldier. Native of Ireland. Hotelkeeper in Cincinnati in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel from June 6, 1861, to his resignation on August 17, 1863. Wounded at the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, on April 7, 1862. Served in the 23rd and 24th Regiments of the Veteran Reserve Corps as colonel.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Ohio, Hamilton County, Cincinnati Ward 4 p. 304.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 914.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 153.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #316,579, Certificate #240,743.

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