Emory R. Harrington

Birth Date

c1836

Death Date

1864-09-29

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Boyle County, Kentucky, silversmith and soldier. New York native. Silversmith in Boyle County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private, second lieutenant, and captain from October 9, 1861, to September 29, 1864. Prisoner of war from July 30, 1864, until his death by disease in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 29, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 899.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 634.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 183.
Find A Grave, "Capt. Emory R. Harrington (1835-1864)," Memorial #33849512, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33849512 (accessed July 31, 2020).

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