William A. Bullitt

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1840-09-18

Death Date

1917-09-20

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White

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"William A. Bullitt" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013210, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Lawrence County, Indiana, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William N. Bullitt and Virginia H. Bullitt. Educated at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Farmer in Lawrence County, Indiana, in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as adjutant, first lieutenant, major, and lieutenant colonel from September 9, 1862, to October 13, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Lawrence County, Flinn, p. 612.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 594.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 171.
U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Application #58,948, Certificate #38,723.
"Colonel Bullitt Dead,"Mitchell Tribune (Mitchell, Indiana), September 27, 1917, p. 1.
Find A Grave, "William A. Bullitt (1840-1917)," Memorial #37898602, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37898602 (accessed August 6, 2020).

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