Wallace Victor

Birth Date

1831-02-28

Death Date

1864-07-13

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Green County, Kentucky, and Arapahoe County, Kansas, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Victor and Martha Victor. Farmer in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned two enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Resident of Arapahoe County, Kansas, in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant captain from December 31, 1861, to July 13, 1864. Wounded at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, Cobb County, Georgia, on June 27, 1864. Died from wounds received at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain. Died from wounds received on July 13, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 152B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 228.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kansas, Arapahoe County, Tarryall and South Park, p. 761.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0269.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 866, 868.
"Obituary," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), July 29, 1864, p. 3.
"Wallace Victor (1831-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 58307978, accessed December 14, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58307978.

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