Lillard, Allen - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 124th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.*
As did all United States Colored Troops (USCT), Allen Lillard fought for the freedom, justice, and equality of all Americans, and for the abolition of slavery on American soil. The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted December 6, 1865, legally abolished slavery in the United States. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 made African Americans full U. S. citizens, thereby repealing the Dred Scott Decision of 1857. In 1868, the 14th Amendment granted full citizenship to African Americans. The 15th Amendment, the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments, was ratified in 1870, and extended the right to vote to African American males. Following the American Civil War, the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau was an important initial step in ensuring the rights of African Americans as full citizens of the United States. The contributions of African American soldiers, like Allen Lillard, helped to bring about these historic changes in the United States.
The 124th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, of which Allen Lillard was a member, was organized at Camp Nelson, KY, January 1 to April 27, 1865. During the American Civil War, it provided garrison and guard duty at various points in the Dept. of Kentucky until December, 1867. Mustered out, December 20, 1867.
Lillard, America - African American female, with the most memorable Lillard name, was born about 1809 and resided in Stanford, Kentucky, according to the 1870 United States Census. America Lillard's name says it all - African American Lillards have been an integral part of every chapter of the American story, since founding of the nation!
Lillard, Bishop E. J. [Public Facebook Page] - Prominent religious leader in the State of Virginia.
Lillard, Calvin A. - Rev. Dr. Calvin A. Lillard is the Senior Pastor of Diamond Grove Baptist Church, 6890 Crittenden Rd., Suffolk, VA 23432. He was recently name 'The Employee of the Year' by the Norfolk, VA City Government. Rev. Dr. Calvin A. Lillard is the son of Horace R. Lillard, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine Smith Lillard.
Lillard, Carlton E. - Band leader, professional musician, and business owner of Chesapeake, VA. Carlton E. Lillard is the son of Horace R. Lillard, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine Smith Lillard.
Lillard, Damian Lamonte Ollie 'Dame' - Award-winning, American professional basketball point guard with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Damian Lillard was unanimously named 2013 NBA 'Rookie of the Year'. He played collegiately at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. Lillard was selected in the first round with the sixth overall pick by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2012 NBA Draft. Damian Lillard's ancestry can be traced back to Kermit Lillard (b. 1924, ARK), Houston Lillard (b. 1868, TN), and James (Jim) Lillard (b. abt. 1846, TN) per Ancestry.com, courtesy of Erik Thorson.
Lillard, David - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 68th United States Colored Infantry.
The 68th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized March 11, 1864, from the 4th Missouri Colored Infantry. Attached to District of Memphis, TN, 16th Corps, Dept. of the TN, to June 1864. 1st Colored Brigade, Memphis, TN, District of West TN, to December, 1864. Fort Pickering, Defenses of Memphis, TN, District of West TN, to February 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, USCT, Military Division West Mississippi, to May 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, USCT, District of West Florida, to June, 1865. Dept. of Texas to February, 1866.
Regiment's Service - At St. Louis, MO until April 27, 1864. Ordered to Memphis, TN, and duty in the Defenses of that city until February, 1865. Smith's Expedition to Tupelo, MS., July 5-21, 1864. Camargo's Cross Roads, near Harrisburg, July 13. Tupelo, July 14-15. Old Town Creek, July 15. At Fort Pickering, Defenses of Memphis, TN until February, 1865. Ordered to New Orleans, LA, thence to Barrancas, FL. March from Pensacola, FL to Blakely, AL, March 20-April 1. Siege of Fort Blakely, April 1-9. Assault and capture of Fort Blakely, April 9. Occupation of Mobile, April 12. March to Montgomery, April 13-25. Duty there and at Mobile until June. Moved to New Orleans, LA thence to Texas. Duty on the Rio Grande and at various points in Texas until February, 1866. Mustered out February 5, 1866.
Predecessor units: MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS; 4th REGIMENT COLORED INFANTRY. Organized at Benton Barracks, MO. Designation changed to 68th United States Colored Troops (USCT) March 11, 1864.
Lillard, Dorothy (1906 -1995) - School Administrator and Outstanding Teacher, Dorothy Lillard was born in Kansas City and began teaching in the Kansas City, MO public schools at the age of 18. She graduated with a B. A. from Lincoln University in Jefferson City, MO, and later earned a Master's degree in education from Columbia University in New York. Lillard did further graduate work at UCLA, USC, and the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii. Lillard taught classes, served as head of Kansas City's School District's Title 1 Program, and was the Principal of the Melcher School from which she retired in 1978. Dorothy Lillard travelled all over the world, and taught children of American military personnel in France, Germany, and the U.K. While teaching in Worcester, England in the mid-1960's, she taught students to sing Negro spirituals. A choral concert they performed proved so popular it was recorded. Lillard was, subsequently, invited by the Queen of England to lunch at the Lancaster House.
Lillard, Eliza A. - African American female with the earliest recorded birth of an African American with the surname Lillard. According to the 1870 United States Census, Eliza A. Lillard, mulatto, of Quincy, Illinois was born about 1795-1797 in Missouri, at a time when Missouri was still, briefly, part of Spanish controlled territory in North America. France had controlled this territory from 1699 to 1762. In 1762, France, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, secretly gave the territory to its ally, Spain. Napoleon Bonaparte regained possession of this Spanish territory for French ownership in 1800, under the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso. Part of President Thomas Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Missouri was admitted into the Union in 1821, as the 24th state. Eliza A. Lillard was a part of this historic transition.
Lillard, Frank - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery.
1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery was organized at Knoxville, TN, February 20, 1864. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, District of East TN, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 1st Brigade, 4th Division of East TN, to March, 1866.
Regiment's Service - Duty at Knoxville, TN until January, 1865. Operations against Wheeler in East TN August 15-25, 1864. Operations in Northern AL and East TN January 31-April 24, 1865. Stoneman's operations from East TN into Southwestern, VA and Western NC, February to April. At Greenville and in District of East TN until March, 1866. Mustered out March 31, 1866.
Lillard, Henry - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 116th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.
116th Regiment, United States Colored Troops was organized at Camp Nelson, KY, June 6 to July 12, 1864. Attached to Military District of KY, Dept. of the Ohio, to September, 1864. Unattached, 10th Corps, Army of the James, to November, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 10th Corps to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps, to April 1865. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 25th Corps and Dept. of Texas, to September, 1866. Dept. of the Gulf to January, 1867.
Regiment's Service - Duty at Camp Nelson until September, 1864. Defense of Camp Nelson and Hickman's Bridge against Forest's attack. Ordered to join Army of the James in Virginia, reporting to General Butler, September 27. Duty at Point City, VA until October. Moved to Deep Bottom October 23. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, October 23, 1864 to April 2, 1865. Operations on the north side of the James River before Richmond, October 27-28. Fatigue duty at Deep Bottom, Dutch Gap, and in trenches before Richmond until March, 1865. Moved to Hatcher's Run, March 27-28. Appomattox Campaign, March 28-April 9. Boydton Road, Hatcher's Run, March 29-31. Fall of Petersburg, April 2. Pursuit of Lee, April 3-9. Appomattox Court House, April 9. Surrender of Lee and his Army. Duty at Petersburg until May 25. Embarked at City Point, VA for Texas, May 25, arriving at Brazos Santiago, June 22. March to White's Ranch, June 24. Duty at Rome, Texas until February, 1866. In Sub-District, Lower Rio Grande until September, and at New Orleans, LA until January, 1867. Mustered out at Louisville, KY, January 17, 1867.
Lillard, Horace R., Sr. (1900-1985) - Band leader, professional musician, and business owner from Beckley, West Virginia. (See header, and band photo below.) Horace R. Lillard, Sr. is the son of Rev. James Henry Lillard and Nina Mann Lillard of Tennessee.
Lillard, Horace R., Jr. (1925-2008) - Band leader, professional musician, decorated World War II United States Navy veteran. Horace R. Lillard, Jr. is the son of Horace R. Lillard, Sr. and Alethia Randall Lillard of Belmont, Ohio.
Lillard, Horace Ronald - Vietnam Veteran, telecommunications administrator, 911 World Trade Center NYC first responder, musician. Son of Horace R. Lillard, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine Smith Lillard.
Lillard, Isaac - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 9th Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery.
9th Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery was organized at Clarksville and Nashville, TN, October 8 to November 1, 1864. Attached to District of Nashville, Department of the Cumberland until May, 1865. Broken up May 5, 1865.
Lillard, James - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 122nd United States Colored Infantry.
122nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized at Louisville, KY, December 31, 1964. Ordered to Virginia, January 12, 1865. Attached to 25th Corps, Army of the James. Unassigned, to April, 1865. Dept. of Texas to February, 1866.
Regiment's Service - Duty in the Defenses of Portsmouth, VA until February, 1865. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, VA, February to April, 1865. Fall of Petersburg and Richmond, April 2-3. Duty in the Dept. of Virginia until June, 1865. Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas, June and July. Duty at Brownsville and various points on the Rio Grande until February, 1866. Mustered out February 8, 1866.
Lillard, James W., Jr., Ph.D., MBA - Morehouse School of Medicine, Associate Dean, Research Affairs; Director, Office of Translational Technologies & MSM GRA VentureLab; Director, MSM Cancer Research Program; Professor, Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry, and Immunology.
Lillard, Jefferson - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 55th United States Colored Infantry.
55th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized March 11, 1864, from 1st Alabama Infantry (African descent). Attached to 1st Colored Brigade, District of Memphis, TN, 16th Corps, to April, 1864. Fort Pickering, Post and Defenses of Memphis, District of West TN, to June 1864. 3rd Brigade, Infantry Division, Sturgis' Expedition, to June, 1864. 1st Colored Brigade, District of Memphis, TN, District of West TN, to January, 1865. 2nd Brigade, Post and Defenses of Memphis, TN to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, USCT, District of Morganza, LA, Dept. of the Gulf, to April, 1965. District of Port Hudson, LA, Dept. of the Gulf until December, 1865.
Regiment's Service - Post and garrison duty at Memphis, TN until June 1, 1864. Sturgis' Expedition from Memphis into Mississippi June 1-13. Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, near Guntown, June 10. Ripley, June 11. Davis' Mills, June 12. Duty at Memphis until August 1. Smith's Expedition to Oxford, MS, August 1-30. Action at Waterford, August 16-17. Garrison duty at Memphis, TN until February, 1865. Ordered to New Orleans, LA, February 28, and duty there until April. Garrison duty at Port Hudson, Baton Rouge, and points in Louisiana until December, 1865. Mustered out, December 31, 1865.
Joe Lillard (1905-1978) - Stellar American professional football, baseball, and basketball player. From 1932 to 1933, Joe Lillard was the star running back for the National Football League's (NFL) Chicago Cardinals. He was only one of two African Americans to play in the NFL at that time. Joe Lillard was a true trailblazer who helped break the 'color line' in the National Football League. In fact, in 1932, Lillard was the only African American playing in the NFL.
Prior to entering the NFL, Joe Lillard had displayed remarkable talent in collegiate football at the University of Oregon from 1930 to 1931, where he was a star athlete. Lillard went on to play for the NFL's Chicago Cardinals. When African Americans were effectively excluded from the NFL by the owners from 1934 to 1946, Lillard continued his professional football career by playing for the New York Brown Bombers, an all-black football team founded in the summer of 1935 by Herschel 'Rip' Day, an African American athletic promoter in Harlem, NYC.
In addition to playing professional football, Joe Lillard, a very gifted athlete, played professional baseball with the Chicago American Giants of Negro League Baseball. Truly a 'Man for All Seasons', Lillard played professional basketball during the winter months, and was an original member of the Savoy Big Five basketball team, which eventually became famous as the Harlem Globetrotters.
Discover more about the fascinating story and amazing career of the legendary Joe Lillard in the following links:
He Did It All - globegazette.com
Joe Lillard, Outfielder/ Punt Returner - Scott Simkus
Joe Lillard, Oregon Star Back 'Benched', Then Reinstated - The Spokesman-Review, October 9, 1931
The Joe Lillard Story - Tales of Oregon Football History/ Duck Downs
The Life Story of Joe Lillard - Eugene Register-Guard, November 16, 1931
The Negro Leagues in Brooklyn - covehurst.net
Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934-1946 - Journal of Sports History, Vol. 15, No. 3, (Winter, 1988)
Not Only the Ball Was Brown, Black Players in Minor League Football, 1933-1946 - profootballresearchers.org
Roosevelt Stadium, Union City, N.J., Home of the Union City Rams Football Team - Program showing picture of the great Joe Lillard on the cover.
/Mike Castro's Field of Dreams
Lillard, Joshua - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 116th United States Colored Infantry. (For the overview and regimental service of the 116th United States Colored Infantry, see Lillard, Henry above.)
Lillard, Kenneth, Rev. Dr. - Founder and Director of The Lillard Project: African American Families; Author of SOCIAL MEDIA and MINISTRY Sharing the Gospel in the Digital Age; Ordained Minister; Member of Who's Who; Graduate of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct., George Washington University's Center for Excellence in Municipal Management, and Emmanuel Bible University, Doctorate of Divinity. Son of Horace R. Lillard, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine Smith Lillard.
Lillard, Kwame Leo (Leo Lillard II) - Civil Rights Activist, Industrial Engineer. President of the African American Cultural Alliance, Nashville, TN Civil Rights Leader, Freedom Bus Rider Activist.
Lillard, Milton - U.S. Civil War Soldier, 117th United States Colored Infantry.
117th United States Colored Infantry was organized at Covington, KY, July 18 to September 27, 1864. Attached to Military District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to October, 1864. Provisional Brigade, 18th Corps, Army of the James, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 25th Corps and Dept. of Texas, to August, 1867.
Regiment's Service - Duty at Camp Nelson, KY until October, 1864. Ordered to Baltimore, MD, thence to City Point, VCA, October 21. Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond until March, 1865. Appomattox Campaign, March 28-April 9. Hatcher's Run, March 29-31. Fall of Petersburg, April 2. Pursuit of Lee, April 3-9. Appomattox Court House, April 9. Surrender of Lee and his Army. Duty at Petersburg and City Point until June. Moved to Brazos Santiago, Texas, June and July. Duty at Brownsville and on the Rio Grande, Texas, until August, 1867. Mustered out August 10.
Lillard, Moses - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery. (For the overview and regimental service of the First Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery, see Lillard, Frank above.)
Lillard, Robert Emmitt (1907-1991) - Nashville, TN Councilman, Judge, and Civil Rights Activist. Born March 23, 1907 in Nashville to John W. and Virginia Allen Lillard. Graduated from Nashville's Kent College of Law in 1935. Elected to Nashville City Council in 1951 and served for twenty years. In March 1978, Gov. Ray Blanton appointed Lillard as Judge of the First Circuit Court, Tenth Judicial District.
Lillard, Rosetta Catherine (Smith) (1927-2009) - Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine (Smith) Lillard , Inspirational Preacher, Evangelist, and Radio Broadcaster on Radio Station WPCE 1400 AM, and WGPL 1350 AM, Willis Broadcasting Network, Norfolk/ Portsmouth, VA, and Vice-President of the Prayer Partners Radio Ministry Group. Rev. Dr. Rosetta Catherine (Smith) Lillard held two (2) Doctorate Degrees in Religion, a remarkable achievement.
Lillard, Simpson - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 116th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. (For the overview and regimental service of the 116th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, see Lillard, Henry, and Lillard Joshua above.)
Lillard, Squire - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 122nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. (For the overview and regimental service of the 122nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, see Lillard, James above)
Lillard, Thomas - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery. (For overview and regimental service of the 1st Regiment, United States Colored Heavy Artillery, see Lillard, Frank, and Lillard, Moses above.)
Lillard, Thomas H. - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 58th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry.
58th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry was organized March 11, 1864, from the 6th Mississippi Infantry (African Descent). Attached to Post of Natchez, MS, District of Vicksburg, MS to April 1866.
Regiment's Service - Post and garrison duty at Natchez and in the Dept. of Mississippi entire term. Expedition from Natchez to Gillespie's Plantation, LA, August 4-6, 1864. Mustered out, April 30, 1865.
Predecessor Unit: MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTERS. 6TH REGIMENT INFANTRY (AFRICAN DESCENT). Organized at Natchez, MS, August 27, 1863. Attached to Post of Natchez, District of Vicksburg, to January, 1864. Post of Vicksburg, MS. to March 1864. Service: Post duty at Natchez and Vicksburg, MS until March, 1864. Skirmish near Natchez, November 11, 1863 (Detachment). Designation of Regiment changed to 58th U.S. Colored Troops, March 11, 1864.
Lillard, Walker (1837-1908) - U. S. Civil War Soldier, 68th United States Colored Infantry, Co. H. (For the overview and regimental service of the 68th United States Colored Infantry, see Lillard, David above.)
Walker Lillard and his brother, David Lillard, were taken as slaves from Anderson County, Kentucky to Audrain County, Missouri about 1852. Missouri, though a slave-owning state, did not secede from the Union during the American Civil War. Consequently, slaves there were not freed by the President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, which only applied to states in rebellion. Many slaves gained their freedom during the Civil War by escaping and joining the Union Army. Walker Lillard, and his brother, David Lillard, did just that. They escaped and joined Co. H of the 68th U. S. Colored Infantry, part of the United States Colored Troops, in March of 1864. Both brothers were mustered out of the service as corporals in February of 1866. (As related by Erik Thorson, Lillard Family descendant and genealogist.)
For additional information and research please see the following resources:
African American Odyssey, Library of Congress
National Archives, "Black Soldiers in the Civil War"
The Civil War, U. S. National Park Service
United States Colored Troops in the Civil War Genealogy, familysearch.org
United States Colored Troops Statue Dedicated - Nashville, TN - Civil War News/ USCT Memorial - Civil War Talk
* Much of the information regarding the United States Colored Troops' regimental service citied above is found at 'The Civil War' (U.S. National Park Service) nps.gov.
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Soldiers of the United States Colored Troops (USCT), during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
The United States Colored Troops were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American soldiers.
USCT regiments fought in all theaters of the war, including the crucial Siege of Petersburg, in which Henry Lillard, James Lillard, Milton Lillard, Simpson Lillard, and Squire Lillard's USCT units all participated. (See above.)
First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted one-tenth of the Union Army.
The United States Colored Troops were regiments of the United States Army during the American Civil War that were composed of African American soldiers.
USCT regiments fought in all theaters of the war, including the crucial Siege of Petersburg, in which Henry Lillard, James Lillard, Milton Lillard, Simpson Lillard, and Squire Lillard's USCT units all participated. (See above.)
First recruited in 1863, by the end of the Civil War, the men of the 175 regiments of the USCT constituted one-tenth of the Union Army.
Horace R. Lillard, Sr., second from the left, of Beckley, West Virginia, was a popular band leader and musician.
During the 1920's and 30's this nationally recognized reedman played with the leading jazz artists (such as Louis Armstrong) and orchestras of the day on stately riverboats that sailed up and down the mighty Mississippi River.
Horace R. Lillard, Sr.'s popular jazz band was, also, much in demand in Canada, where he often played dates.
Joe Lillard, sixth from the left, (about 1933) with the Savoy Big Five basketball team, a forerunner of the world famous Harlem Globetrotters.
A gifted athlete, Joe Lillard was also a star running back for the NFL's
Chicago Cardinals.
In addition, Joe Lillard was a star outfielder, and pitcher for the Chicago American Giants of
Negro League Baseball.
Joe Lillard, #19, star running back for the NFL's Chicago Cardinals, 'taking it to the house' against Chicago Bear's Hall of Famer, Red Grange, #77, at Wrigley Field in Chicago, 1933.