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Subject: A.D. Colbert- Biography(Very interesting military history also)
Date: 1 Mar 2005 13:52:22 -0700

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Surnames: Colbert, Birch,Walker
Classification: Biography

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A.D.Colbert, was born in Daviess County, Ind., in March, 1837. He is the son of L.D. and Jane (Birch) Colbert, who were born in 1818 and 1819, respectively. The mother died when our subject was quite young, and he made his home with with his father until twenty-one years of age,when he was married to Sarah Walker, daughter of Solomon and Martha Jane Walker, natives of east Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Colbert are the parents of the following children: George, Emma, Minnie (deceased), Herbert, Edgar, Benjamin, Mildred, Maggie, John, Seth, Charles and William. After his marriage he lived two years in Veal Township, August , 1863, enlisted in Company I, Sixty-fifth Indiana Volunteers and served two years, when he was transfered to the One Hundred and Twentieth Indiana Regiment. He was in the East Tennessee campaign and in several engagements, and was with Sherman on his march to the sea. He was with Thomas at Nashville, and Schofield at Franklin. He was at the capture of Wilm!
ington. On the 19th of January, 1866, he was mustered out at Raleigh, N.C. He is a Republican and cast his first vote for Lincoln. He has been a member of the Christian Church thirty years and his wife of the same, for forty years.
History of Knox and Daviess Indiana
Goodspeed Publishing;Chicago;1886
Pages 756-757

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