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Baxter Merritt (Franklin County, KY, boatman and soldier in 6th Kentucky Cavalry (USA))

b. 1841? d. 1865-04-27

Franklin County, Kentucky, boatman and soldier. Franklin County, Kentucky, native. Resident of Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 24, 1861 to April 27, 1865. Charged with horse stealing in Franklin County, Kentucky, in November 1862. Captured in Walker County, Georgia, on June 24, 1864. Prisoner of war from June 24, 1864 to April 1865. Died in the explosion of the Sultana on the Ohio River on April 27, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 360B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0069.

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Merritt, Baxter. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200288 (November 12, 2026).

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