Houston Riley

Birth Date

1838-09-07

Death Date

1914-11-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Nashville, Tennessee, native. Son of Elizabeth Riley. Resident of Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmhand for W. Gresham in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private, hospital cook, and teamster from August 19, 1861, to April 1865. Captured at Spring Hill, Tennessee, on December 18, 1864. Prisoner of war in Louisville, Kentucky, and Camp Chase, Ohio, from January 28, 1865, to March 9, 1865. Paroled and furloughed at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, from March 9, 1865, to April 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 324B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 36.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, District 1, p. 23B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.
"Houston Riley (1838-1914)," Find A Grave, Memorial #159839801, accessed April 18, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/159839801.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 100-01.

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