John Allen Campbell

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1835-10-08

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1880-07-14

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"John Allen Campbell" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018122, (accessed December 22, 2024).

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Ohio soldier. Salem, Columbiana County, Ohio, native. Son of John Campbell and Rebecca Snodgrass Campbell. Served in the 1st Ohio Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from October 31, 1861 to October 27, 1862. Promoted to major and assistant adjutant general of volunteers on October 27, 1862. Promoted to lieutenant colonel on January 31, 1865. Subsequently brevetted colonel and brigadier general.

"A Noble Woman Gone," The Salem Daily News (Salem, Ohio), January 5, 1892, p. 3.
James Grant Wilson and John Fiske, ed. Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography Vol. I (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888), 514.
"Death of Hon. John A. Campbell, "Harrisburg TelegraphJuly 14, 1880, p. 1.
Francis Bernard Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789 to March 2, 1903 Volume 1, Part 2 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903), 278.
"John Allen Campbell (1835-1880)," Find A Grave, Memorial #21458, Accessed August 24, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21458/john-allen-campbell.

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