Oliver P. Hamilton

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c1829

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1864-07

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White

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"Oliver P. Hamilton" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009496, (accessed April 20, 2024).

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Jackson County, Tennessee, farmer and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Helen Hamilton. Father of Isabel Hamilton, Loretha Hamilton, Benjamin Hamilton, George Hamilton, Rorey Ann Hamilton, and William Hamilton. Farmer in Jackson County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Jackson County in 1860. Served in the Shaw’s (Hamilton’s) Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Battalion (C.S.A.) as captain and lieutenant colonel from December 21, 1861 to July 1864. Captured at Celina, Tennessee, on March 18, 1864. Held at the military prison in Louisville, Kentucky, from March 18, 1864 to July 10, 1864. Shot by a guard and transferred to Lexington, Kentucky on July 10, 1864. Died of his wounds in July 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Jackson County, District 6, p. 3.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Tennessee, Jackson County, District 6 south of Cumberland River, p. 1.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M268, Roll 84.
Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, National Archives Microfilm RG 109, Publication Roll M59894, p. 5284.
_Find A Grave, "Oliver P. Hamilton (c1829-July 1864)," Memorial #2964178, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2964178/oliver-perry-hamilton (accessed June 11, 2019).

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