Suggested edit: Pleasant M. McCoy was the second known child and first son of William McCoy (1811-1879) and Mary Ann Burris (1820-1913), who were ultimately the parents of fourteen children. He was born in Pike County, Kentucky, and appears with his parents and siblings in the 1850 (10 years old) and 1860 (20 years old) U.S. census records. After that, he fails to appear in further census records. [He should not be confused with Pleasant Peace McCoy, his approximate contemporary (1844-1938) who was also from Pike County.] Pleasant appears to have been named for his paternal uncle, Pleasant McCoy (1818-1845).
Pleasant and his brother James H McCoy (one year younger) both disappear from census records after 1860. They do appear in records of captured Confederate soldiers beginning in early July of 1863. In these records, they are reported as captured in Pike County, Kentucky, on July 8, 1863. [Other records give a slightly different date and report the place as "Cumberland Gap".] The brothers (22 and 21 years old) were taken in company with their first cousin once removed, Randolph McCoy, then thirty-seven years old, who would later gain notoriety as "Ol' Ran'l" McCoy of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. They were all sent initially to Kemper Barrack(s) in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 18, then on to Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 19th and finally to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, on or about July 22, 1863.
Pleasant is variously listed in the records of Camp Douglas as P. M. McCoy, Pleasant McCoy and Pleas McCoy. The final listing from the camp states that Randolph McCoy was released on June 16, 1865, and that the dispositions of Pleasant and James were "unaccounted for". That was not quite true, however, since Pleasant is recorded as having died at Camp Douglas on December 2, 1863, just over three months from his arrival of "inflammation of the lungs". He was said to have been buried in grave 878 of "City Cemetery" in Chicago. His body was later (beginning in 1872 following the great fire of 1871) disinterred and moved to Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. There his name is inscribed on the Confederate Mound monument as being among the several thousand buried in a mass grave there. His brother James also disappears from all records at this point and is assumed to have died at Camp Douglas as well.
Contributor: M Petersen (46622877)
Pleasant and his brother James H McCoy (one year younger) both disappear from census records after 1860. They do appear in records of captured Confederate soldiers beginning in early July of 1863. In these records, they are reported as captured in Pike County, Kentucky, on July 8, 1863. [Other records give a slightly different date and report the place as "Cumberland Gap".] The brothers (22 and 21 years old) were taken in company with their first cousin once removed, Randolph McCoy, then thirty-seven years old, who would later gain notoriety as "Ol' Ran'l" McCoy of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. They were all sent initially to Kemper Barrack(s) in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 18, then on to Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 19th and finally to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, on or about July 22, 1863.
Pleasant is variously listed in the records of Camp Douglas as P. M. McCoy, Pleasant McCoy and Pleas McCoy. The final listing from the camp states that Randolph McCoy was released on June 16, 1865, and that the dispositions of Pleasant and James were "unaccounted for". That was not quite true, however, since Pleasant is recorded as having died at Camp Douglas on December 2, 1863, just over three months from his arrival of "inflammation of the lungs". He was said to have been buried in grave 878 of "City Cemetery" in Chicago. His body was later (beginning in 1872 following the great fire of 1871) disinterred and moved to Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. There his name is inscribed on the Confederate Mound monument as being among the several thousand buried in a mass grave there. His brother James also disappears from all records at this point and is assumed to have died at Camp Douglas as well.
Contributor: M Petersen (46622877)
Suggested edit: Pleasant M. McCoy was the second known child and first son of William McCoy (1811-1879) and Mary Ann Burris (1820-1913), who were ultimately the parents of fourteen children. He was born in Pike County, Kentucky, and appears with his parents and siblings in the 1850 (10 years old) and 1860 (20 years old) U.S. census records. After that, he fails to appear in further census records. [He should not be confused with Pleasant Peace McCoy, his approximate contemporary (1844-1938) who was also from Pike County.] Pleasant appears to have been named for his paternal uncle, Pleasant McCoy (1818-1845).
Pleasant and his brother James H McCoy (one year younger) both disappear from census records after 1860. They do appear in records of captured Confederate soldiers beginning in early July of 1863. In these records, they are reported as captured in Pike County, Kentucky, on July 8, 1863. [Other records give a slightly different date and report the place as "Cumberland Gap".] The brothers (22 and 21 years old) were taken in company with their first cousin once removed, Randolph McCoy, then thirty-seven years old, who would later gain notoriety as "Ol' Ran'l" McCoy of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. They were all sent initially to Kemper Barrack(s) in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 18, then on to Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 19th and finally to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, on or about July 22, 1863.
Pleasant is variously listed in the records of Camp Douglas as P. M. McCoy, Pleasant McCoy and Pleas McCoy. The final listing from the camp states that Randolph McCoy was released on June 16, 1865, and that the dispositions of Pleasant and James were "unaccounted for". That was not quite true, however, since Pleasant is recorded as having died at Camp Douglas on December 2, 1863, just over three months from his arrival of "inflammation of the lungs". He was said to have been buried in grave 878 of "City Cemetery" in Chicago. His body was later (beginning in 1872 following the great fire of 1871) disinterred and moved to Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. There his name is inscribed on the Confederate Mound monument as being among the several thousand buried in a mass grave there. His brother James also disappears from all records at this point and is assumed to have died at Camp Douglas as well.
Contributor: M Petersen (46622877)
Pleasant and his brother James H McCoy (one year younger) both disappear from census records after 1860. They do appear in records of captured Confederate soldiers beginning in early July of 1863. In these records, they are reported as captured in Pike County, Kentucky, on July 8, 1863. [Other records give a slightly different date and report the place as "Cumberland Gap".] The brothers (22 and 21 years old) were taken in company with their first cousin once removed, Randolph McCoy, then thirty-seven years old, who would later gain notoriety as "Ol' Ran'l" McCoy of the Hatfield-McCoy feud. They were all sent initially to Kemper Barrack(s) in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 18, then on to Camp Chase, Ohio, on the 19th and finally to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, on or about July 22, 1863.
Pleasant is variously listed in the records of Camp Douglas as P. M. McCoy, Pleasant McCoy and Pleas McCoy. The final listing from the camp states that Randolph McCoy was released on June 16, 1865, and that the dispositions of Pleasant and James were "unaccounted for". That was not quite true, however, since Pleasant is recorded as having died at Camp Douglas on December 2, 1863, just over three months from his arrival of "inflammation of the lungs". He was said to have been buried in grave 878 of "City Cemetery" in Chicago. His body was later (beginning in 1872 following the great fire of 1871) disinterred and moved to Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. There his name is inscribed on the Confederate Mound monument as being among the several thousand buried in a mass grave there. His brother James also disappears from all records at this point and is assumed to have died at Camp Douglas as well.
Contributor: M Petersen (46622877)
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