John L. Dorsey

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c1838

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"John L. Dorsey" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013386, (accessed April 29, 2024).

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Fleming County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff, clerk, and soldier. Fleming County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Dorsey and Arra Dorsey. Student in Fleming County in 1850. Deputy clerk in Fleming County Court prior to 1860. Deputy sheriff in Fleming County in 1860. Enlisted in the 16th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private on October 12, 1861. Discharged on virtue of enlistment as veteran volunteer on December 31, 1863. Mustered back in the 16th Kentucky on January 1, 1864. Wounded in action at Columbia, Tennessee, on November 29, 1864, and sent to hospital, where he also served as a nurse in the No. 19 U. S. A. General Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, from November 30, 1864, to February 1865. Mustered out on July 15, 1865

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, District 1, p. 345B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg (District 2), p. 636.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Rolls 0290 and 0487.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 628-29.
Find A Grave, “John L. Dorsey (1836-1898)," Memorial 110836453, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/110836453/john-l-dorsey (accessed September 10, 2020).
KYR-0002-009-0021.

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