William Delawson

Birth Date

c1842

Death Date

1862-05-26

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Trigg County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Laborer in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from October 24, 1861 to May 26, 1862. Captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, on February 16, 1862. Died in prison at Louisville, Kentucky, on May 26, 1862.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trigg County, p. 48.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 396-97.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0125.

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