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William C. Root

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Birth Date

c1828

Gender

M

Race Description

White

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Person

"William C. Root" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005156, (accessed March 18, 2025).

KYR-0002-033-0002

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Hustonville, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Tennessee native. Sergeant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment from July 27, 1861, to December 31, 1864.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 10-11.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Hustonville Precinct, p. 4.

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