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Henry English Read (LaRue County, KY, congressman (CSA))

b. 1824-12-25 d. 1868-11-09

LaRue County, Kentucky, sheriff, attorney, soldier, and politician. Hardin County, Kentucky, native. Married to Lottie C. Read. Father of William D. Read, Mary D. Read, and Thomas Doran Read. Served as a private and ensign in the U.S.-Mexican War. Sheriff in LaRue County in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Unsuccessful Southern Rights candidate for the United States Congress in June 1861. Served in the Confederate Army as colonel of cavalry. Member of the House of Representatives of the Confederate States of America from Kentucky from 1862 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, LaRue County, Hamilton District.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, 7th Ward City of Louisville, p. 101.

Confederate Applications for Pardon and Amnesty, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M1003, Roll #0026.

“A Brave Man’s memory . . . Courageous Career of Col. H. E. Read,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), July 23, 1882.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed, vol. 1 (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, State Printer, 1854), 188.

Ezra J. Warner and W. Buck Yearns, Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1975), 202-203.

Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.

"Henry E. Read (1824-1868)," Find A Grave, Memorial #6865338, accessed January 12, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6865338.

Citation

Read, Henry English. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199069 (November 12, 2026).

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