Hartwell T. Burge

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1805

Death Date

c1876

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White

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"Hartwell T. Burge" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002272, (accessed April 19, 2024).

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Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, minister and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Mary Jane Burge. Father of A. C. Burge, Phebe T. Burge, S. A. Burge, Martha Burge, Mary F. Burge, Daniel Burge, and Virginia Burge. Methodist minister in Adair County in 1850. Methodist minister in Muhlenberg County in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as chaplain from December 13, 1861, to June 23, 1863. Served in the 48th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from October 15, 1863, to December 19, 1864. Commanded Post of Bowling Green, Kentucky, District of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, from January 1864 to March 1864. Commanded Post of Munfordville, Kentucky, District of Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, from April 1864 to August 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 49A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Muhlenberg County, District 2, p. 730.
W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, 7th ed. (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 716.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina, 2014), 150.

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