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William Lindsay (Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney and assistant quartermaster (CSA))

b. 1835? d. 1909?

Hickman County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Virginia native. Son of Andrew Lindsey and Sally Gilmore Davidson Lindsay. Studied law under John W. Brockenborough in Lexington, Virginia, until 1854. Studied law under Edward Crossland in Clinton, Kentucky. Admitted to the bar in 1858. Attorney in Hickman County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (C.S.A.) as assistant quartermaster from July 2, 1861, until May 6, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Rockbridge County, District 51, p. 412A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Clinton, p. 511.

H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 90-1.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 332-3.

Find A Grave, "William Lindsay (1835-1909)," Memorial #7644184, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7644184 (accessed August 18, 2020).

Citation

Lindsay, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197725 (November 12, 2026).

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