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Barton W. Jenkins (Henry County, KY, farmer, trader, and soldier)

b. 1832 d. 1910

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer, trader, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Thomas F. Jenkins and Catharine Jenkins. Married to Anna Rebecca Barnhill Jenkins in Oldham County, Kentucky, on May 18, 1859. Father of A. L. Jenkins, M. V. Jenkins, W. B. Jenkins, and Thomas F. Jenkins. Farmer in Woodford County in 1850. Trader in Henry County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Served in the Confederate Army as a captain and aide de camp to General H. Marshall and General John S. Williams. Captured near Nashville, Tennessee on November 5, 1862. Paroled on November 14, 1862. Served in 7th Battalion Mounted Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers (C.S.A.) as a captain. Captured March 21, 1864 at Days Gap, Alabama. Prisoner of war in Louisville, Kentucky, from April 3, 1864, to April 13, 1864. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, from April 14, 1864 to February 12, 1865. Prisoner of war at Point Lookout, Maryland, from February 12, 1865.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, District 1, p. 450A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 432.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville District 115, p. 194C.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Oldham County Marriages, Film 000482442, p. 309.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 238, 332, 422, 424.

Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, Roll 0105.

"Capt Barton W. Jenkins (1832-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial 39072782, accessed November 12, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39072782.

KYR-0004-033-0001.

Citation

Jenkins, Barton W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197957 (November 12, 2026).

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