Henry Cooksey

Title

Henry Cooksey

Aliases

Harry Cooksey

Date

28 September 1869-9 April 1879

Description

Regiment: 118th United States Colored Troops Infantry
Company: I
Rank: Sergeant
Enrollment date and place: 20 September 1864
Veteran's death date and place: 28 February 1866 on the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Not listed
Comrades: Stephen Barrett; Thomas Payne

Name of spouse: Elizabeth Cooksey
Children: Ransom Cooksey (10 December 1857); Mary Cooksey (2 March 1863); Martha Cooksey (9 November 1864)

Veteran's birth date and place: Not listed
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslavers: Not listed

Parents of veteran: Not listed
Other listed family members: Not listed

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: Not listed
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Not listed

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated by:

Dan Gediman