William H. Eifort

Birth Date

c1843

Death Date

1864-09-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Carter County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Sebastian Eifort and Rachel Jackson Eifort. Clerk in Carter County, Kentucky, in 1850. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant colonel, from September 9, 1861, to September 3, 1864. Killed in action near Triune, Tennessee, on September 3, 1864.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 46-47, 51, 57.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 920

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