Soldier Information
Name: Spencer Buckner
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Place of Birth: Nelson KY Year of Birth: 1836
Occupation: Laborer
Eyes: Black Hair: Black Complexion: Black
Height in Feet: 5 Inches: 7
Enlistment Information
Enlistment Date: May 17, 1863
Enlistment Place: Grand Gulf
Enlistment State: MS
Compiled Military Service Record
Document: View
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Company: I Regiment(s): 53rd USCI
Mustered Where: Milliken’s Bend, Louisiana
Mustered Out Date: March 8, 1866
Rank at Muster Out: Sergeant
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Soldier Death Information
Died in war? No
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Soldier Pension Information
No pension card found
Widow Pension Information
Widow Pension Card: Pension Card
Widow Application Date: November 28, 1890
Application No.: 491362 Certificate No.:
No other family pension card found
Pension File Information
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Freedman’s Bank/Freedmen’s Bureau Information
Freedman’s Bank Link: View
Freedman’s Bank Notes:
The Bank account of Phillis Buckner shows that she was born in Nashville. Names of her husband (Spencer), daughter (Sylvia), and parents were included on the account. John Williams and Barbery were named as parents of Phillis; both were deceased by 1873.
Notes from Freedmen’s Bureau Documents:
Several times Spencer Buckner served as a witness to help identify soldiers from the same regiment in which he served. Buckner was “known to be a good man” and was “well known as a good witness.”
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Family Information
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Wife #1 First Name: Phillis Maiden Name:
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Children: Sylvia Buckner 1858
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1870 Census
1870 Census Link: View
1870 Profession: Dray Man
1870 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1870 Real Estate Value: 1870 Personal Estate Value: 200
1870 Ability to Read? Cannot read Ability to Write? Cannot write
1870 Census Notes:
Spencer’s wife and her nephew resided in Vicksburg, about two pages from Spencer’s enumeration, with an orphan and a woman whose relationship to Mrs. Buckner was not shown in the census.
1880 Census
1880 Census Link: View
1880 Profession: Laborer
1880 Live with/near former enslaver? Unknown
1880 Ability to Read? Unknown Ability to Write? Unknown
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1890 Census
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Enslaver Information
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1860 Enslaver Census
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1870 Enslaver Census
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1880 Enslaver Census
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Compensation Information
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