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Joshua West Jacobs (Boyle County, Kentucky, captain (U.S.A.))

b. 1843-06-24 d. 1905-10-13

Boyle County, Kentucky, soldier. Boyle County, Kentucky, native. Son of John Adamson Jacobs and Susan Walker Fry Powell Jacobs. Attended school in Boyle County in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1850. Instructor in 1860. Attended Centre College in Boyle County from 1860 to 1861. Household owned six enslaved persons in Boyle County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a private, sergeant major, first lieutenant, and captain from October 8, 1861, to August 17, 1865. Wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga in Walker County, Georgia, on September 19, 1863. Captured at the Battle of Atlanta in Atlanta on July 31, 1864. Prisoner of war from July 31, 1864 to March 10, 1865. Paroled at Camp Parole in Annapolis, Maryland, on March 10, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville District 2, p. 363A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville District 2, p. 596-598.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, Danville, p. 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Boyle County, p. 149.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Montana Territory, Lewis and Clark County, Fort Shaw, p. 228A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0184.

Thirty-Eighth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, Danville, KY., For the Year 1862. (Frankfort: A.G. Hodges, state printer, 1862), p. 7.

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Being the History of the United States, (New York: James T. White & Company, 1918), vol. 16, p. 338.

"Gen Joshua West Jacobs (1843-1905)," Find A Grave, Memorial 38379854, accessed September 28, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38379854.

Citation

Jacobs, Joshua West. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32198828 (November 12, 2026).

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