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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Military Correspondence, 1863-1867 KYR-0001-003-0094 BR5-154

Eli P. Ford (Missouri, soldier.) N00018542 1839-05-15 1886-05-11 Categories: People

Missouri, soldier. Tennessee native. Served in the 2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a private from September 10, 1861, to September 27, 1864. Mustered out September 27, 1864.

Relationships Military: 2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Calloway County, Swan's Precinct, p. 103A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Missouri, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0390. U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Roll 157, Application 388868, Certificate 267464. "Eli Pleasant Ford (1839-1886)," Find A Grave, Memorial 24794379 , accessed September 12, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24794379 . 2nd Missouri Volunteer Infantry O00018541 1861-09-10 1864-10-01 Categories: Organizations

Organized at St. Louis, Missouri. Mustered in on September 10, 1861, and mustered out on October 1, 1864. Commanders: Fredrick Shaefer and Bernard Laibold.

Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Missouri for the Year Ending December 31, 1865 (Jefferson City, MO: Emory S. Foster, 1866), 95. Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1322. Note English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Eli P Ford Compy C 2nd Missuri Volunteer Infantry Discharged Oct 18654 Enlisted July 1861

My Discharge went head quarters in order to get my Equalization Bounty

Incured Disease while in the army from the effects of which I am now unable to labor for a support