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Henry Dent (Louisville, KY clerk, Provost Guard, chief of police, col. 34th Ky Inf USA)

b. 1820?

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, soldier, and police chief. Maryland native. Married to Sarah A. Dent. Father of Laura Dent, Henry Dent, Mary Dent, Sarah Dent, Kingley Dent, and Edward H. Dent. Tax collector in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Served in the First Battalion Provost Guard of Louisville (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel from September 23, 1861, to October 3, 1862. Chief of police of the City of Louisville from March 1862 to May 9, 1862. Served in the 34th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 3, 1862, to June 1, 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 4, Ward 7, p. 353A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 3, p. 724.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 3, p. 264B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 316-7, 344-46.

Morton O. Childress, "Louisville Police Department" in The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 565-67.

Citation

Dent, Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198193 (November 12, 2026).

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