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Charles Milward (Lexington, KY, salesman & Major, 7th Cavalry, USA)

b. 1837? d. 1862-08-23

Lexington, Kentucky, salesman and soldier. Maryland native. Son of Joseph Milward and Eliza Ann Milward. Student in Lexington in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Lexington in 1850. Salesman in Lexington in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Commissioned major in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) on August 16, 1862. Killed at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, on August 23, 1862.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 130B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 1, p. 571.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 382.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 451A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 180-181.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 965.

Citation

Milward, Charles. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198341 (November 12, 2026).

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