Military Records

Danville Boyle County
African American Historical Society
108 North Second Street, Danville, KY  40422
PO Box 597, Danville, KY  40423


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Military Records

US Colored Troops Muster and Descriptive Roll, Boyle and Lincoln Counties, with index
from https://kyhistory.com/digital/collection/MS/id/957
Nearly 800 names, mostly Boyle and Lincoln, giving descriptions and owner's names

Record of Musters Made By Capt N C Kinney, USA, Camp Nelson, from 
https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2132/
Nearly 3800 names from Central Kentucky, most giving owner's names

Partial Index to Slave Compensation Records for Kentucky
"Loyal" slave owners could request payment for any slaves who joined Union armies.  
This is a PARTIAL index to those records for Kentucky.

World War I Draft Registrations, July 1917

World War I Draft Registrations, September 1918

World War I Enlistments and Draftees
Scans of original pages containing over 200 individual records of 
Boyle County African-Americans, compiled by Dr Fayette Dunlap

World War I Enlistments and Draftees, Transcribed

World War I Call to Report
Men from Boyle County "entrained" to military posts all over the US

Boyle County Members of the 369th Infantry -- Harlem Hellfighters
(this file is preliminary, and needs more work)

Men from Kentucky who served in the 369th Infantry

Boyle County African American Enlistments in World War II

World War II Draft Registrations outside Kentucky, 1942

Applications for Military Grave Markers 1925-1970 -- INDEX for area counties

Applications for Military Grave Markers 1925-1970 -- TRANSCRIBED for Boyle County

Applications for Military Grave Markers 1925-1970 -- Actual images of cards from Boyle County

 

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