Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

About

Shelbyville and Louisville, Kentucky, lawyer. Kentucky native. Married to Sarah Shelby McDowell. Father of Mary Ballard and Austin Ballard. Graduated from Shelby College and Hanover College. Graduated law school at Transylvania University in 1846. Appointed Judge of the U.S. District Court for Kentucky by Abraham Lincoln on October 20, 1861.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

H. Levin, ed., Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1897). Thomas Marshall Green, Historic Families of Kentucky (Baltimore: Regional Publishing Co., 1964 [reprint]) pp. 78-79. Sallie E. Marshall Hardy, “Some Kentucky Lawyers of the Past and Present,” The Green Bag: An Entertaining Magazine for Lawyers, Vol. IX (Boston: Boston Book Co., 1897) pp. 262-63. “Death of Judge Bland Ballard,” The New York Times, July 30, 1879, p.1 col. 6.

Citation

Ballard, Bland. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198823 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (2)

Correspondence
Bland Ballard to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-29
Correspondence
N. B. Gantt to James F. Robinson
1862-09-15

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