Person

James H. Husbands (Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.)

b. 1836? d. 1896

Graves County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James B. Husbands and Maria S. Martin Husbands. Attended school in McCracken County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in McCracken County in 1850. Graduated from the Law Department of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1856. Attorney in Graves County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Graves County in 1860. Served in the 1st Confederate Cavalry (C.S.A.) as first lieutenant and captain from March 4, 1862, to May 15, 1865. Captured at Henry County, Tennessee, on January 6, 1864. Prisoner of war at Rock Island Barracks, Rock Island County, Illinois, from January 16, 1864, to January 21, 1864. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Franklin County, Ohio, from January 23, 1864, to March 25, 1864. Prisoner of war at Fort Delaware, New Castle County, Delaware, from March 27, 1864, to January 20, 1865. Prisoner of war at Fort Monroe, Virginia, from January 26, 1865, to February 2, 1865. Paroled on May 15, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District 1, p. 142B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Paducah, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, Mayfield, p. 333.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Graves County, p. 49A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Texas, Ellis County, Waxahachie, p. 371B.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students in the Law Department of the University of Louisville, Session of 1859-60, (Louisville: Hull and Brothers Printers, 1860), 14.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M258, Roll 0002.

Union Provost Marshals' File of Paper Relating to Individual Civilians, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M345, Roll 0138.

U.S. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M598, War Department Collection of Confederate Records, p. 156.

Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Volume I (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), p. 298.

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Husbands, James H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198700 (November 12, 2026).

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