45th Infantry US Colored Troops Company F
Declaration of Substitute 20th February 1865 Grafton, WVA
Mustered out with Company 4th November 1865
s/o Patrick & Martha Richardson
During the Civil War, the 45th US Colored Infantry was the one black regiment assigned to West Virginia. Most of the men were from Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They were either escaped slaves eager to serve to further establish their "free" status or "freedmen" from different states placed together near the conclusion of the war after African-Americans had proven their effectiveness (West Virginia State Archives).
A descendant of Private Pleasant Richardson has been awarded in his honor a Class I ("Honorably Discharged") West Virginia Civil War Medal.
Pleasant Richardson was born a slave 89 years ago. He lived on the Johnston plantation until the third year of the War between the states, when he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. army and took part in Bank's expedition up the Red River Valley in Texas. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and was mustered out of the army at Philadelphia. He came home and married Henrietta Braxton by whom he had two children, one of whom, Mrs. Arena Richardson Preston is still living. Upon the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Nancy Callendar who preceded him to the grave.
Besides his daughter and sister, Mrs. Alice Edwards of Vinton, he leaves a host of friends and family to mourn his loss.
He was a consistent member of First Baptist Church of Fincastle. He was a soldier par excellence and next to his religion prided in this fact. It was very appropriate that he answered his last bugle call on Memorial Day.
He was the last of the "old guard". All of his Botetourt comrades, Robert Kidd Turner, George Spurlock and Thomas Reynolds have taken the last stand. In the front line trenches, while taps are being sounded over the remains of Pleasant Richardson ...
On Fames eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents to spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.- Theodore O'Hara
The Fincastle Herald
June 4, 1935
Declaration of Substitute 20th February 1865 Grafton, WVA
Mustered out with Company 4th November 1865
s/o Patrick & Martha Richardson
During the Civil War, the 45th US Colored Infantry was the one black regiment assigned to West Virginia. Most of the men were from Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They were either escaped slaves eager to serve to further establish their "free" status or "freedmen" from different states placed together near the conclusion of the war after African-Americans had proven their effectiveness (West Virginia State Archives).
A descendant of Private Pleasant Richardson has been awarded in his honor a Class I ("Honorably Discharged") West Virginia Civil War Medal.
Pleasant Richardson was born a slave 89 years ago. He lived on the Johnston plantation until the third year of the War between the states, when he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. army and took part in Bank's expedition up the Red River Valley in Texas. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and was mustered out of the army at Philadelphia. He came home and married Henrietta Braxton by whom he had two children, one of whom, Mrs. Arena Richardson Preston is still living. Upon the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Nancy Callendar who preceded him to the grave.
Besides his daughter and sister, Mrs. Alice Edwards of Vinton, he leaves a host of friends and family to mourn his loss.
He was a consistent member of First Baptist Church of Fincastle. He was a soldier par excellence and next to his religion prided in this fact. It was very appropriate that he answered his last bugle call on Memorial Day.
He was the last of the "old guard". All of his Botetourt comrades, Robert Kidd Turner, George Spurlock and Thomas Reynolds have taken the last stand. In the front line trenches, while taps are being sounded over the remains of Pleasant Richardson ...
On Fames eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents to spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.- Theodore O'Hara
The Fincastle Herald
June 4, 1935
45th Infantry US Colored Troops Company F
Declaration of Substitute 20th February 1865 Grafton, WVA
Mustered out with Company 4th November 1865
s/o Patrick & Martha Richardson
During the Civil War, the 45th US Colored Infantry was the one black regiment assigned to West Virginia. Most of the men were from Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They were either escaped slaves eager to serve to further establish their "free" status or "freedmen" from different states placed together near the conclusion of the war after African-Americans had proven their effectiveness (West Virginia State Archives).
A descendant of Private Pleasant Richardson has been awarded in his honor a Class I ("Honorably Discharged") West Virginia Civil War Medal.
Pleasant Richardson was born a slave 89 years ago. He lived on the Johnston plantation until the third year of the War between the states, when he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. army and took part in Bank's expedition up the Red River Valley in Texas. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and was mustered out of the army at Philadelphia. He came home and married Henrietta Braxton by whom he had two children, one of whom, Mrs. Arena Richardson Preston is still living. Upon the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Nancy Callendar who preceded him to the grave.
Besides his daughter and sister, Mrs. Alice Edwards of Vinton, he leaves a host of friends and family to mourn his loss.
He was a consistent member of First Baptist Church of Fincastle. He was a soldier par excellence and next to his religion prided in this fact. It was very appropriate that he answered his last bugle call on Memorial Day.
He was the last of the "old guard". All of his Botetourt comrades, Robert Kidd Turner, George Spurlock and Thomas Reynolds have taken the last stand. In the front line trenches, while taps are being sounded over the remains of Pleasant Richardson ...
On Fames eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents to spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.- Theodore O'Hara
The Fincastle Herald
June 4, 1935
Declaration of Substitute 20th February 1865 Grafton, WVA
Mustered out with Company 4th November 1865
s/o Patrick & Martha Richardson
During the Civil War, the 45th US Colored Infantry was the one black regiment assigned to West Virginia. Most of the men were from Virginia, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. They were either escaped slaves eager to serve to further establish their "free" status or "freedmen" from different states placed together near the conclusion of the war after African-Americans had proven their effectiveness (West Virginia State Archives).
A descendant of Private Pleasant Richardson has been awarded in his honor a Class I ("Honorably Discharged") West Virginia Civil War Medal.
Pleasant Richardson was born a slave 89 years ago. He lived on the Johnston plantation until the third year of the War between the states, when he ran away from home and enlisted in the U.S. army and took part in Bank's expedition up the Red River Valley in Texas. He was present at the surrender of Lee at Appomattox and was mustered out of the army at Philadelphia. He came home and married Henrietta Braxton by whom he had two children, one of whom, Mrs. Arena Richardson Preston is still living. Upon the death of his first wife, he married Mrs. Nancy Callendar who preceded him to the grave.
Besides his daughter and sister, Mrs. Alice Edwards of Vinton, he leaves a host of friends and family to mourn his loss.
He was a consistent member of First Baptist Church of Fincastle. He was a soldier par excellence and next to his religion prided in this fact. It was very appropriate that he answered his last bugle call on Memorial Day.
He was the last of the "old guard". All of his Botetourt comrades, Robert Kidd Turner, George Spurlock and Thomas Reynolds have taken the last stand. In the front line trenches, while taps are being sounded over the remains of Pleasant Richardson ...
On Fames eternal camping-ground
Their silent tents to spread,
And glory guards with solemn round
The bivouac of the dead.- Theodore O'Hara
The Fincastle Herald
June 4, 1935
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