Chesterfield Howell

Birth Date

1833-11-01

Death Date

1896-12-15

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Squire Howell and Cynthia Howell. Resident of Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmhand for John Musselman in Harrison County in 1860. Enlisted in the 9th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private on October 21, 1861. Wounded at Chickamauga, Georgia, on September 20, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 122A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 467-68.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0131.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 432-33.
"Chesterfield Howell (1833-1896)," Find A Grave, Memorial #47707506, accessed August 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47707506.

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