Thomas Brooks Fairleigh

Birth Date

1837-01-27

Death Date

1890-11-02

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Brandenburg, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Brandenburg native. Son of William Fairleigh and Elizabeth Fairleigh. Student in Brandenburg in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Brandenburg in 1850. Graduate of the University of Louisville Law School in 1858. Attorney in Brandenburg in 1860. Served in the 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain, major, and lieutenant colonel from February 1862 to August 1862. Served under Stephen G. Burbridge as Acting Assistant Adjutant General in August 1862. Served in the Army of the Ohio, 2nd Army Corps, as the Acting Assistant Adjutant General from October 7, 1862, to November 26, 1862. Commanded Bowling Green post from August 1863 to January 1864. Served on the staff of General Burbridge from March 1864 to May 1864. Commanded Louisville post from May 1864 to January 1865. Colonel of the veteranized 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from 1864 to July 1865. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 208B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Kentucky District, p. 811, p. 9 of 19 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Meade County, Brandenburg, p. 379.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 155.
"Col. Fairleigh Dead," Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 3, 1890.

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