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Daniel Ball (Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier (U.S.A.))

b. 1838? d. 1864-07-02

Jessamine County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Ball and Delitha Ball. Resident of Jessamine County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Jessamine County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 22, 1862 to July 1864. Captured in Blount County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863. Prisoner of war in Richmond, Virginia, from November 1863 to February 1864. Prisoner of war at Andersonville Prison, in Sumter County, Georgia from February 1864 to July 2, 1864. Died at Andersonville Prison in July 2, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, District 1, p. 35A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 69-70.

"Ball, Daniel," Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0105.

“Ball, Daniel,” U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, NARA RG 92.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Roll 019, Application 224654, Certificate 218346.

Citation

Ball, Daniel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200185 (November 12, 2026).

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