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William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor)

b. 1833-06-28 d. 1875-01-02

Lexington, Kentucky, trader, soldier, and inventor. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Trader with Joseph S. Scott in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 8, 1861, to December 7, 1862. Resigned from service on December 7, 1862. Paymaster General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Invented the Triplett & Scott repeating rifle with Lewis Triplett, patented in December 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 240A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0176.

Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1864-65, vol. 10-11 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865), p. 961.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 183-184.

"William T Scott (1833-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 60045140, accessed May 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60045140.

KYR-0002-222-0125.

Citation

Scott, William Thompson. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197455 (November 12, 2026).

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