Albert P. Henry

Birth Date

c1836

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Woodford County, Kentucky, soldier and sculptor. Woodford County, Kentucky, native. Son of C.B. Henry and Angeline Henry. Resident in Woodford County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk at Hillman Brothers Iron Works in Lyon County in 1860. Served in the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from April 30, 1863, to March 31, 1864. Taken prisoner of war at Spring Creek, Tennessee, on June 29, 1863. Imprisoned at Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, until paroled on March 31, 1864. Sculptor of Abraham Lincoln, working in Washington, D.C., in November 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 2, p. 461A-B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lyon County, p. 722.
"A Civil War Prisoner's Dream," Kentucky Online Arts Resource Blog, December 31, 2012, https://kentuckyonlinearts.wordpress.com/tag/albert-p-henry/.
"Albert P. Henry (1836-1872)," Find A Grave, Memorial #191616284, accessed April 6, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191616284.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.
"Yesterday at the Academy, The Bust of Lincoln Inaugural Ceremonies, Remarks of Governor Bramlette, and Oration of Hon. James Speed, A Large and Appreciative Audience,"Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 13, 1867, p. 2.

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