William Oldham

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c1830

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"William Oldham" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013619, (accessed May 3, 2024).

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Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Elias Oldham and Polly Oldham. Married to Margaret Oldham Oldham in Hopkins County, Kentucky, on May 9, 1861. Student and farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Day laborer in Hopkins County in 1860. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1863. Served in the 2nd Battalion Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) from October 1861. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from February 5, 1865 to April 2, 1865. Reported as deserted from Madisonville, Kentucky, on April 2, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 53A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 705.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Roll #994027-58, Hopkins County Marriages, p. 24 of 61 on microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Hopkins County, KY, July 1863, p. 44 (accessed via Ancestry.com).
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0478.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 316.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 405.

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