Robert A. Waller

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1841-12-28

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1908-08-04

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"Robert A. Waller" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00019057, (accessed June 1, 2024).

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Union County, Kentucky, law student and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Aaron Waller and Mary Waller. Attended school in Union County in 1850. Household owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Union County in 1850. Law student in Union County in 1860. Household owned twenty enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from October 10, 1862, to February 17, 1865. Captured near Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, on July 18, 1864. Prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Cook County, Illinois, from August 1, 1864, to February 17, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on February 17, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 1, p. 453B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 1.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 390.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, p. 408B.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 349B.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0003.
"Robert Aaron Waller (1841-1908)," Find A Grave, Memorial 103753412, accessed December 14, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/103753412.

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