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Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA)

b. 1823-08 d. 1887-07-09

About

Shelby County, Kentucky, politician and soldier. Shelby County, Kentucky, native. Graduated of Bethany College in Bethany, Virginia. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the U.S.-Mexican War from 1847 to 1848. Attended law school at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Attorney in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Shelby County from 1857 to 1865. Attorney and farmer in Shelby County in 1860. Owned eleven enslaved persons in Shelby County in 1860. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 24, 1861, to June 25, 1863. Served in the Army of the Cumberland as brigadier general and brevet major general from June 25, 1863, to August 24, 1865.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 12.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 1.

Society of the Army of the Cumberland: Nineteenth Reunion, Chicago, Illinois, 1888 (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1889), 190-94.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Covington, Ky.: Collins & Co., 1882), 709.

Citation

Whitaker, Walter C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199193 (November 12, 2026).

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The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Walter C. Whitaker (Shelby Co. Ky state sen; col & genl 6th Ky Inf & Army of Cumberland USA). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

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James F. Robinson et al., Complimentary to the Union Ladies of Kentucky
1863-02-14
Correspondence
Robert B. Gray et al. to James F. Robinson and John W. Finnell
1863-06-01
Correspondence
Walter C. Whitaker to John W. Finnell
1863
Correspondence
Walter C. Whitaker to Thomas S. Page
1863-03-12

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