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PVT Ishmail Bell

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PVT Ishmail Bell Veteran

Birth
Clark County, Kentucky, USA
Death
4 May 1865 (aged 41–42)
Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky, USA Add to Map
Plot
C, 0, 908
Memorial ID
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Served in Co. C, 124th US Colored Troops Infantry, enlisting on April 17, 1865, at Paris, KY. The cause of his death is unknown.

He proceeded directly from slavery to the war against slavery. Per his service records, he was owned at time of his enlistment by Otha Bell of Clark County, Kentucky. Otha Bell owned a man, surely Ishmael Bell, shown as born about 1825, in the 1860 Clark County slave schedule.
Served in Co. C, 124th US Colored Troops Infantry, enlisting on April 17, 1865, at Paris, KY. The cause of his death is unknown.

He proceeded directly from slavery to the war against slavery. Per his service records, he was owned at time of his enlistment by Otha Bell of Clark County, Kentucky. Otha Bell owned a man, surely Ishmael Bell, shown as born about 1825, in the 1860 Clark County slave schedule.

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