John Thomas Wilder

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1830-01-31

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1917-10-20

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"John Thomas Wilder" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013219, (accessed January 8, 2025).

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Decatur County, Indiana, millwright and soldier. New York native. Married to Martha J. Wilder. Father of Mary Wilder and Rachel Wilder. Millwright in Decatur County, Indiana, in 1860. Employed Kate Snell as a domestic worker in Decatur County in 1860. Served in the 26th Battery of Indiana Light Artillery (U.S.A.) as colonel from June 12, 1861, to August 7, 1864. Served in the 17th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment as brigadier general from August 7, 1864, to October 5, 1864.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Decatur County, Washington, p. 701.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Hamilton County, Chattanooga Ward 2, p. 692A.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, Volume I, Containing Indiana in the War of the Rebellion, and Statistics and Documents, pp. 41, 180.
"Famous Soldier Well Known Here,"Princeton Daily Clarion(Princeton, Indiana), October 26, 1917, p. 2.

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