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John W. Swinker

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"John W. Swinker" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00011003, (accessed April 30, 2025).

Kentucky, soldier. Married to Alletta Swinker. Served in Frankfort Battalion of the First Regiment Capital Guards (U.S.A.) as captain from June 22, 1864, to February 28, 1865.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 757. Eleventh Census of the United States (1890), Special Schedules Enumerating Union Veterans and Widows of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, p. 5.

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