Category: 5th Regiment, United States Colored Cavalry, United States Civil War

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Organized at Camp Nelson, Ky., October 24, 1864. Attached to 1st Division, District of Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio, to February, 1865. Military District of Kentucky and Dept. of Arkansas, to March, 1866.

Mustered out March 20, 1866.

Regiment lost during service 35 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 151 Enlisted men by disease. Total 187.

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• National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database

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James Greathouse Mar 1849 Louisville, Kentucky, United States - 20 Nov 1914

Mack McGuire Mar 1844 Georgetown, Scott, Kentucky, United States - 23 Jun 1914

Charles Thompson 1839 Westhampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States - 20 Oct 1903

Christopher Thompson 1819 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States - 05 Nov 1898

John Thompson 1828 Hatfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States - 12 Mar 1864

Samuel Truehart abt 1843 Shelby, Kentucky, United States - 12 Aug 1897

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