Americus V. Carlisle

Birth Date

c1837

Death Date

1865-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carroll County, Kentucky, attorney and deputy provost marshal. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Carlisle and Acenith P. Carlisle. Attorney in Carroll County in 1860. Deputy provost marshal of Carroll County during the Civil War. Killed at the hands of Quantrill's guerrillas near Carrollton, Kentucky, in February 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Carroll, District 2, p. 68.
“Civil War Reports,” The Madison Daily Courier, February 3, 1865.
Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), p. 74.

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