Charles Milward

Birth Date

c1837

Death Date

1862-08-23

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Lexington, Kentucky, salesman and soldier. Maryland native. Son of Joseph Milward and Eliza Ann Milward. Student in Lexington in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Salesman in Lexington in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Commissioned major in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) on August 16, 1862. Killed at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, on August 23, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 130B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 571.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 382.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 451A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180-181.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 965.

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