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Matthew Scott Dudley (Lexington, Kentucky, resident; pvt & adj 21st Ky Inf USA, ass't paymaster for KY 1865)

b. 1844?

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, resident and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Ethelbert L. Dudley and Mary Dudley. Resident in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 21st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private and adjutant from 1861 to 1863. Appointed assistant paymaster for Kentucky by Governor Thomas E. Bramlette on April 1, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 144A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 391.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398..

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Dudley, Matthew Scott. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198190 (January 24, 2026).

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