Milan M Sisk (abt. 1820 - 1864)

Born about 1820 in Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 20 Jul 1864 at about age 44 in Camp Douglas, Illinois

Biography

Death

Date: 20 JUL 1864

Place: Camp Douglas, Illinois

Age: About 43-44

Cause: Chronic diarrea

Residence

Census Date: 1850 ^[1]

Place: Hopkins County, Kentucky, United States

Age: About 29-30

Census Date: 1860

Place: Hopkins, Kentucky, USA

Age: About 39-40

Event

Type: Military Service

Date: 1862

Place: Kentucky, USA

Age: About 41-42

Occupation

Occupation: deputy sheriff

Date: FROM 1860

Place: Hopkins County, Kentucky

Civil War

Civil War information provided by Hopkins County Genealogy Society member Mrs Leon Laffoon:

Milan M Sisk enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company I, Tenth Ky. Partison Rangers, 1862 and served as Orderly Sergeant of that Company. He was in fights at Madisonville, Hopkinsville, Clarksville, Uniontown, Owensboro, Panther Creek, Elizabethtown, Ashbyburg, Muldraugh's Hill, all in Kentucky,and was at Liberty and Snow Hill in Tennessee and was on Morgans Raids into Indiana and Ohio, where he was captured at Cheshire. Mr Sisk was sent to Camp Douglas where he died the twenty third day of July 1864. He left a family of seven children. (The above taken from "The Partison Rangers of the Confederate States of America" written by General Adam R Johnson).

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M65W-Y6D : 4 April 2020), Milan M Sisk, Hopkins county, part of, Hopkins, Kentucky, United States; citing family 42, NARA microfilm publication M432.