Lemarcus R. Ray

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c1824

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1863-11-21

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"Lemarcus R. Ray" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00018895, (accessed April 29, 2024).

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Metcalfe County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Bruce Ray and Lydia Frances Ray. Resident of Cumberland County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Metcalfe County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 31, 1861 to November 21, 1863. Wounded at the Battle of Huff's Ferry, Roane County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863. Died at Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, on November 21, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland, p. 342A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Metcalfe County, p. 823.
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC121755.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0486.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 863.

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