Alexander Miller Stout

Birth Date

1820-01-08

Death Date

1895-08-25

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Graduated from Harvard College in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in 1841. Married to Margaret Singleton Stout in 1843. Father of Simpson Stout, Matilda Stout, Stanley S. Stout, Alexander M. Stout, and Emma W. Stout. Attorney in Daviess County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned five enslaved persons in Daviess County in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Employed Johanna Stapleton as a servant in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 8, 1861 to January 23, 1865. Wounded at Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. Brevetted to Brigadier General of Volunteers on March 13, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1, p. 374A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, District 1.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 59.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 267B.
Catalogue of the Alpha Delta Phi Society(Cambridge, MA: Metcalf and Company, 1851), p. 79.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0307.
"Gen. Alexander M. Stout is Dead,"Chicago Tribune(Chicago, IL), August 26, 1895, p.3.
Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903 vol. 1, pt. II (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1903), 931.

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