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Albert M. McGoodwin (Princeton, Caldwell County, Kentucky, student, dry goods merchant; 1st lieut, adj, & capt 3rd Ky Inf CSA)

b. 1836?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier. Caldwell County, Kentucky, native. Son of D. W. McGoodwin and Susan B. McGoodwin. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Dry goods merchant in Princeton in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a first lieutenant, adjutant, and captain from July 10, 1861, to May 14, 1865. Captured at Paducah on March 25, 1864. Signed a parole of honor as a prisoner of war for loyalty to the United States of America on May 14, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 280B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 1, p. 816.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 116.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 218B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 98-99.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

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McGoodwin, Albert M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199421 (November 12, 2026).

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