Lewis B. Vimont

Birth Date

c1835

Death Date

1864-10-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Bourbon County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John S. Vimont. Clerk in Bourbon County in 1850. Resident of Millersburg, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private and company bugler from December 23, 1861, to May 28, 1863. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from May 29, 1863, until he died of pneumonia in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on October 28, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 2, pp. 262B-263A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, Millersburg, p. 579.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 073, 085.
Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, compiled 1861-1865, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M233, Kentucky, Surname L-Z, p. 149 /180 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Find A Grave, "Lewis B. Vimont (Unknown-1864)," Memorial #2997115, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/2997115 (accessed September 7, 2020).

Civil War Governors of Kentucky is always evolving. Help us improve the edition by suggesting a correction or addition to this record.

Suggest a correction