Linn B. Baker

Birth Date

c1845

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Trigg County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Blake Baker and Edna Gresham Baker. Resident in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Trigg County in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private from June 6, 1861 to September 1863. Captured September 6, 1863 at Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, District 1, p. 322A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 48.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, Canton, p. 62A.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0001.

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