Louis Kinstler

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c1831

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"Louis Kinstler" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018778, (accessed April 26, 2024).

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Christian County, Kentucky, merchant and detective. Native of Germany. Married to Susan Ake Kinstler in Jackson County, Alabama, on June 29, 1854. Father of Lucy Kinstler. Merchant in Christian County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Christian County in 1860. Detective for the United States in 1863. Charged by military commission with accepting bribes in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on March 29, 1864. Detective for the United States in 1864. Detective in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 673.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 272B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 5, p. 441A.
Alabama Marriage Records, Jackson County Courthouse, Scottsboro, AL, Jackson County Marriages, 1851-1871, Film 001028279, p. 174.
Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T289, Kentucky, Application 203349.
U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, War Department Collection of Confederate Records.
Union Provost Marshals' File Of Paper Relating To Individual Civilians, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M354, Roll 0288.
Edwards' Annual Director to the Inhabitants, Institutions, Incorporated Companies, Manufacturing Establishments, Business firms, Etc., Etc., in the City of Louisville, For 1865-6 (Louisville: Edwards, Greenough & Deved, 1866), 387.
"A Fire in Hopkinsville," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), August 20, 1861.
"An Arrival From Montgomery, Ala." The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), Sept. 1, 1862.
"A Smuggler and A Detective," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), May 4, 1863.
"Personal." Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), Oct. 8, 1866.

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