Adopt-A-Soldier Program

At this time we are modifying our adopt-a-soldier program to accept donations for cleaning solution and flags. With so many soldiers adopted we are encountering some difficulty in placing a new flag each year (we need your help!), so we wan to go back to our original focus: Payne and Augusta Hillside Cemeteries. However, we want to keep cleaning stones, including those soldiers listed to the right who have not been adopted. Please consider a donation as we work to honor these civil war veterans. Thank you!

The Civil War Augusta mission is to promote, preserve, and interpret the Civil War story of Augusta. Our Adopt-A-Soldier program preserves the memory of Civil War soldiers in Bracken County by dignifying their final resting place with cleaning their stone with an approved VA product and an appropriate flag.

Click the button above to donate. $10.00 will help buy cleaning solution while $20.00 also provides a flag and flag holder. Any amount, large or small, helps!

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After

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ONGOING ADoptions

Hillside

  • Bateman, Ephraim M. - 2nd Kentucky Cavalry

  • Brengarter, Charles - 16th Kentucky Infantry

  • Craig, Benjamin S. - 59th Ohio infantry

  • Doniphan, William A. - 10th Kentucky Cavalry (USA)

  • Kautz, William - 2nd Ohio Heavy Artillery

  • McKibben, George H. - 59th Ohio Infantry

  • Reese, George L. - Union Home Guard, later 2nd United States Infantry

Completed Adoptions

Coburn-Baker

  • Taylor, Burr - 81st Ohio Infantry - adopted by Angela Dial (Tennessee)

  • Unknown Confederate (does not have a stone) - 2nd Kentucky Cavalry - adopted by Angela Dial (Tennessee)

Hillside

  • Barker, Thomas Jefferson - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Susan Waters (California, Kentucky)

  • Bradford, Dr. Joshua Taylor - Home Guard commander - adopted by Debi Blattmann (Newport, Kentucky)

  • Case, Charles O. - 23rd Ohio Infantry - adopted by Daniel & Faith Greer (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Cleveland, Francis L. - Home Guard and aide to J. Taylor Bradford - adopted by Allen & Joaleene Miranda (Chicago, Illinois)

  • Cox, William P. - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Mary Ann Kearns (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Crumbaugh, David B. - 1st Arkansas Cavalry/Buckner’s Guards (CSA) - adopted by Marie England (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Doniphan, Joseph - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Judy Lindsey (Brooksville, Kentucky)

  • Evans, Henry J. - 27th Ohio Infantry - adopted by Russel Egbert (Austin, Indiana)

  • Gregston, James J. - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Ronald and Phyllis Thornbury (Brooksville, Kentucky)

  • Hafer, James H. - 12th & 172nd Ohio Infantry - adopted by Mary Ann Kearns (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Holmes, David T. - 150th Indiana Infantry - adopted by Daniel & Faith Greer (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Holten, Andrew J. - 59th Ohio Infantry - adopted by Darryl Smith (Cincinnati, Ohio)

  • Jones, William H. - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by John Yingling (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Landen, Charles A. - Union Home Guard - adopted by Caroline Miller (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Louderback, Anderson - Home Guard - adopted by Marie England (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • McKibben, Alpheus - Union Home Guard - adopted by Greg Cummins (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • McKibben, Charles T. - 82nd Indiana Infantry - adopted by Dana & Alison Bach (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Myers, Alfred N. - Union Home Guard - adopted by Deborah R. Cortner (Brooksville, Kentucky)

  • Powers, James A. - 11th Virginia Infantry/42nd Virginia Infantry (CSA) - adopted by Theresa Gertz-Kelsey (Cincinnati, Ohio)

  • Reese, Cary A. - possible musician 2nd United States Infantry - adopted by Julie Egbert (Austin, Indiana)

  • Steen, Albert P. - 55th Massachusetts Infantry - adopted by Darryl Smith (Cincinnati, Ohio)

  • Taylor, Dr. B. William H. - Union Home Guard - adopted by Lucinda Martin

  • Weimer, Benjamin F. - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Daniel & Faith Greer (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Weimer, John W. - U.S. Navy - adopted by Connie Frasier (Chandler, Arizona)

  • Weimer, William T. - 40th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Marie England (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Wilson, James R. - (CSA) - adopted by Debbie & Scott Musick (Brooksville, Kentucky)

  • Wittmeier, Leon H. - 9th Ohio Infantry - adopted by Jake Schulte (Cynthiana, Kentucky) of The Ninth Ohio: A Living History

Payne

  • Bradley, John S. - 8th Kentucky Cavalry (CSA) - adopted by Gary & Sharon Hay (Augusta, Kentucky)

  • Gregston, George P. - 16th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Jennifer Bonar Gray (Arlington, Virginia)

  • Harry, William A. - 10th Kentucky Cavalry - adopted by Mindy Sticklen (Highland Heights, Kentucky)

  • Kerans, George T. - 189th Ohio Infantry - adopted by Mindy Sticklen (Highland Heights, Kentucky)

  • McKeown, John - 5th Kentucky Infantry - adopted by Jennifer Bonar Gray (Arlington, Virginia)

  • Ryan, Thomas D. - 7th Kentucky Cavalry - adopted by Mindy Sticklen (Highland Heights, Kentucky)

  • Smith, William M. - 10th Kentucky Cavalry - adopted by Mindy Sticklen (Highland Heights, Kentucky)

  • Story, William B. - Union Home Guard - adopted by Joe & Carol Hammer (Grayson, Kentucky)

  • Unknown Confederates - 2nd Kentucky Cavalry (CSA) - two adopted by Julie Stephens (Wildwood, Missouri), four adopted by Gary & Katrina Gill (Dover, Kentucky), two adopted by Tina Duncan (Georgetown, Ohio)

  • Willis, Henry P. - 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Battalion (CSA) - adopted by Teron Bay (Maysville, Kentucky)

  • Yates, Nathaniel - 59th Ohio Infantry - adopted by Darryl Smith (Cincinnati, Ohio)