Michael M. Teagar

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1833-05-01

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1910-06

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"Michael M. Teagar" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018851, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Lewis county, Kentucky, postmaster, attorney, and soldier. Bath County, Kentucky, native. Son of Jacob Teagar and Louisa Moore Teagar . Attended school in Lewis County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Lewis County in 1850. Attended Antioch College in Green County, Ohio, from 1853 to 1854. Postmaster for Clarksburgh in Lewis County, Kentucky, from March 17, 1856, to December 25, 1856. Attorney in Lewis County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Lewis County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles (C.S.A.) as a private from October 26, 1862, to May 2, 1865. Affirmed an oath of loyalty to the U.S. government on July 18, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2, pp. 197B-198A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lewis County, p. 780.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Lewis County, p. 336A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fleming County, Flemingsburg, p. 408B.
_Case Files of Applications from Former Confederates for Presidential Pardons (“Amnesty Papers”), 1865-1867, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll 0026.
Catalogue of Antioch College for the Academic Years, 1853-4 & 1854-5, (Cincinnati: C. F. Bradley & Co., 1855), pg. 21.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0021.
“Ex-County Clerk of Fleming Dead,” The Lexington Herald (Lexington, KY), June 13, 1910, p. 2.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971 Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Lewis County, Kentucky, vol. 14, p. 654.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. II (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 370.
W.H. Perrin, J.H. Battle, and G.C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the States (Louisville, KY: F.A. Battey and Company, 1888), p. 990.

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