MILITARY MONDAY: THOMAS CALVIN ALLEN, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

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THOMAS CALVIN ALLEN 

1845 -1899

COMPANY I, 12TH KENTUCKY REGIMENT CAVALRY

 CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY

 My maternal great-grandfather,

Father of Ida Mae Allen Crider, 

Maternal grandfather of Augusta Crider Harrison 

Military

1863- 1865

Age: 18 at enlistment

Kentucky and Tennessee - 

Civil War- Confederate Soldier, Co I , 12th Kentucky Regiment Cavalry. Enlisted in Hickman, KY. Surrendered with his company at Selma, Alabama in 10 April 1865. Pardoned with company. Source- widow's pension application filed in state of KY.

12th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry [also called 1st KY & TN Rgt] - mustered into Confederate service at Verona, Mississippi, in September, 1863. General Lyon's Brigade. Action in TN, MS, AL. merged into the 8th Kentucky Infantry (Mounted) Regiment.

Marriage:  18 Sep 1877

Age: 32

Troy, Obion County, Tennessee, USA

Lucy stated on her widow's pension application in 1912 that they were married in Obion Co, TN. Marriage record is found there also. They lived in Kentucky before and after the war. 

Military Page on Ancestry.com, created by The Hopelessly Hooked Genealogist, 

B. Harrison 

Confederate Widow's Pension Application of Lucy F. Allen

Letter from Lucy Fannie Clark Allen's Widow's Pension File

Source: website at www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail

Find A Grave Memorial

Compiled and Written by

The Hopelessly Hooked Genealogist

B. Harrison

(F.A.G. genie-in-az)

Direct descendant of 

Thomas Calvin Allen