William Jennings Landram

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1828-02-11

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1895-10-11

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"William Jennings Landram" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009931, (accessed May 4, 2024).

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Garrard County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah A. Walker Landram in Garrard County, Kentucky, on November 2, 1848. Father of Mary Landram, William W. Landram, Addie E. Landram, Sallie Logan Landram, and Ella B. Landram. Served in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment as a private from June 9, 1846 to June 8, 1847 in the U.S.-Mexico War. Editor in Garrard County in 1850. Owned one enslaved person in Garrard County in 1850. Clerk in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Garrard County in 1860. Clerk of Garrard County Court in 1861. Served in the 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 2, 1862, to January 26, 1865. Commanded a brigade in the XIII Corps of the Union army. Subsequently brevetted to Brigadier General of Volunteers.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 2, p. 287A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, District 2, p. 67.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 631.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 14A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, p. 446B.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film 000183256, p. 46.
“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in 1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 305.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 323.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0489.
Francis B Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 613-614.
"William Jennings Landram (1828-1895)," Find A Grave, Memorial 6917180, accessed December 20, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6917180.

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