Henry English Read

Birth Date

1824-12-25

Death Date

1868-10-11

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Larue County, Kentucky, blacksmith, sheriff, attorney, politician, and soldier. Kentucky native. Blacksmith in Hardin County in 1847. Served in the Mexican-American War as a soldier with the U.S. Volunteers from April 1847 to February 1848. Sheriff of LaRue County in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Kentucky representative in the Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, Hamilton District, p. 398A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 7, p. 493.
Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914 (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94, NARA, Mexican War Enlistments, p. 214.
Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress, Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, eds. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 202-203.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll 7007126, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 191.
KYR-0004-033-0023.

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