Benjamin Franklin Camp

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c1837

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1904-07-07

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"Benjamin Franklin Camp" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00021122, (accessed April 29, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas P. Camp and Susan Camp. Attended school in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Served in the 1st Kentucky (Butler's) Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private, corporal, and sergeant from April 1863, to December 31, 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 241B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 995.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport (before 1911), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 7007130, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 197.
"Camp, B. F.” Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0001.
Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 50.

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