James Winn

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"James Winn" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00020992, (accessed May 8, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, bricklayer, mason, and soldier. Native of Ireland. Married to Julia Ann King Winn in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on July 31, 1853. Father of James Winn and Georgeanna Winn. Bricklayer in Louisville in 1860. Mason in Louisville in 1861. Served in the Provost Guard of Louisville as a sergeant from October 19, 1861, to September 3, 1862. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from November 24, 1862, through March 1863. Served in the Second Regiment of the Louisville Legion of Defense as captain in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 1, p. 120.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 571A.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0471.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0477.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482707.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. II, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 349.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 266.
"Kentucky Officers Commissioned," The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), 14 Jan 1863, p. 4.
The Louisville Daily Journal (Louisville, KY), 16 July 1863, p. 3.

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