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Henry Clay Hedges (Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier (11th KY Cav))

b. 1837?

Harrison County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Bourbon County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Hedges and Lucinda Hedges. Married to Missouri Oder Hedges in Grant County, Kentucky, on September 10, 1859. Father of Lucy J. Hedges and Green T. Hedges. Resident of Bourbon County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1850. Farmer in Harrison County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from September 22, 1862 to June 2, 1865. Captured at the Battle of Philadelphia in Monroe County, Tennessee, on October 20, 1863. Prisoner of war from October 20, 1863 to March 1, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bourbon County, District 1, p. 301A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, District 2, p. 542.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, Cordova, p. 493A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Grant County Marriages, Film 007725699.

Catalogue of the Ohio Wesleyan University: For the Academical Year 1870-1871, Delaware, Ohio, (Ohio Wesleyan University: Delaware, Ohio, 1871).

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0108.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 278-9.

Citation

Hedges, Henry Clay. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199318 (November 12, 2026).

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