William H. Stearman

Birth Date

c1838

Death Date

1863-11-16

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Green County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William W. Stearman and Sarah Stearman. Married to Sarah Jane Craddock Stearman in Green County, Kentucky, on January 8, 1859. Attended school in Green County in 1850. Farmhand in Green County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant and second lieutenant from December 31, 1861 to November 16, 1863. Wounded at the Battle of Huff's Ferry, Roane County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863. Died in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, on November 16, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 130B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 551.
Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC21906.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0268.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 865-6.

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