Stephen Augustus Hurlbut

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1815-11-29

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1882-03-27

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"Stephen Augustus Hurlbut" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00017344, (accessed April 20, 2024).

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Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier. Charleston, South Carolina, native. Son of Martin Luther Hurlbut and Lydia Bunce Hurlbut. Married to Sophronia R. Hurlbut in 1847. Father of George Hurlbut. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1845. Presidential Elector for the Whigs from Boone County in 1848. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of Illinois from 1859 to 1861. Lawyer in Belvidere, Illinois in 1860. Served in U.S. Volunteers as a brigadier general from May 17, 1861 to Dec. 1862. Served in 16th Corps, Army of the Tennessee (U.S.A.) as a brigadier general from Dec. 1862 to Sept. 1862. Served in the Army of the Gulf (U.S.A.) as a major general from Sept. 1862 to June 1865. Commander of the Department of the Gulf from 1864 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Boone County, Belvidere, p. 7A-7B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Boone County, Belvidere, p. 475.
Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Boone County, IL, July 1863, p. 140.
Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, State Historical Society of Iowa, State Archives, Des Moines, Iowa, RG099.
Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General,1861-1870, National Archives, RG 94, Roll 0028.
U.S., Passport Applications, 1795-1925, National Archives and Records Administration, Roll 0635, Certificates: 47000-47249, Nov. 1918.
"Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (1815-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5894568, accessed April 1, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894568.
"Stephen Augustus Hurlbut," Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. III, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson (New York: Appleton, 1889), 328.
Henry H. Hurlbut,The Hurlbut Genealogy (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1888), 176.
Jeffrey Lash,A Politician Turned General: The Civil War Career of Stephen Augustus Hurlbut(Kent & London: The Kent State University Press, 2003).

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