Benjamin J Button

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1843-09-10

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1910-05-26

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"Benjamin J Button" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019011, (accessed April 29, 2024).

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Metcalfe County, Kentucky, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Alfred Button and Martha W. Button. Resident of Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Metcalfe County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 31, 1861 to January 12, 1865. Wounded in battle in Tennessee in November 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 473B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Metcalfe County, p. 936-7.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Metcalfe County, p. 103A.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0263.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 870.
"Benjamin Johnson Button (1843-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 19738277, accessed December 9, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19738277.
KYR-0001-003-0014.

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