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J. Henry Wolfe (Georgetown, Kentucky, grocer and soldier)

b. 1825 d. 1897

Georgetown, Kentucky, grocer and soldier. Bremen, Germany, native. Married to Elizabeth Wolfe. Educated in surveying and civil engineering, in a German military institute. Immigrated to the United States and settled in Florida. Relocated to Georgetown in 1840. Grocer in Georgetown from 1840 to 1862. Member of the Mount Vernon Lodge No. 14 in Georgetown in 1862. Served as a captain in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (Confederate) from September 1862 to October 1864. Captured at Syracuse, Ohio, in July 1863. Prisoner of War at Columbus, Ohio, and at Fort Delaware in Pea Patch Island, Delaware. Paroled and exchanged in October 1864.

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Bibliography

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0043. Perrin, William Henry, ed., "History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky* (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co., 1882), 620. Find A Grave, "Capt John Henry Wolfe (1825-1897)," Memorial #102041855, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102041855/john-henry-wolfe (accessed January 24, 2018).

Citation

Wolfe, J. Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197929 (November 12, 2026).

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