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Harris Keeney (Switzerland County, Indiana, blacksmith & col 10th IN Legion, Prov Marshal)

b. 1818-04-20 d. 1872-01-15

Switzerland County, Indiana, blacksmith and soldier. New York native. Married to Charlotte L. Keeney. Father of John G. Keeney, Job M. Keeney, Charles H. Keeney, and Edwin H. Keeney. Blacksmith in Switzerland County in 1850. Postmaster in Switzerland County in 1853. Blacksmith in Switzerland County in 1860. Served in the 54th Indiana Infantry as first lieutenant from June 10, 1862, to September 1862. Served in 10th Indiana Legion of Switzerland County as colonel from May 29, 1863. Provost marshal of Switzerland County in February 1863.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Posey, p. 439A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Switzerland County, Jefferson, p. 313.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2014), p. 15.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, Indiana (Randolph-Whitley), Vol. #14, p. 291 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 3, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel L. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), 465.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #363102, Certificate #306143.

Find A Grave, "Col Harris Keeney (1818-1872)," Memorial #121786743, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/121786743 (accessed April 25, 2020).

KYR-0001-004-0371.

Citation

Keeney, Harris. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206959 (November 12, 2026).

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