Oliver Leonard Baldwin

Birth Date

1835-08

Death Date

1865-09-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

New Albany, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, plasterer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Laura Virginia Gaar Baldwin on August 8, 1864 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Plasterer in New Albany, Indiana in 1850. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry as captain and major (U.S.A.) from June 1863 until January 1, 1864. Served in 5th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry as colonel from January 1864 to March 25, 1865.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 907. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0050. Find A Grave, "Oliver Leonard Baldwin (1835-1865)," Memorial #100674443, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100674443 (accessed June 10, 2019). Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd, New Albany, p. 336A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film # 000482710.

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