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According to the American Civil War Soldiers database, Hannibal F Wilson joined the forces of the 5th Kansas Cavalry shortly after the Union occupation of Helena, Phillips County, Arkansas on 26 Jul 1862. He was not allowed to serve on active duty until 25 Jun 1863, and thereafter served honorably in companies B, H, and I. In 1891 he was a resident of Hoquiam, then Chehalis now Grays Harbor County, Washington and joined Washington Post 52 of the GAR, Department of Washington and Alaska, within two years of its muster in December 1889. He may have been in receipt of pension; does anyone have access to the T288 information (Ancestry's links are not presently working)? His T289 card at the LDS Pilot Site suggests he may have died in 1923, but gives no intervening jurisdictions or award data. Census information is sorely lacking. He may be the Hannibal Wilson with wife Nettie, b 1834 in Arkansas, residing at Emporia, Lyon, Kansas in 1880--a return with which no other census years correlate.
The eleven-month time lag between enlistment and muster-in strongly suggests his commanders were waiting for authority to enroll him (and pay him). Shades of the 54th Massachusetts!
He should not be confused with a vet of the same name who served in the 5th West Virginia, and whose burial location is known to the SUV.
Experts in the field, or those with the Kansas AG report or its substitutes handy, your input on: (1) is it plausible he could have been a black cavalry private in an integrated unit and (2) where else to look for information on Kansas Cav troops.
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