Person

George McCracken Jessee (Henry County, KY, farmer and capt & lt col (CSA))

b. 1832-08-18 d. 1896-02-21

Henry County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Elizabeth Pryor Foree Jessee in Ohio County on September 2, 1851. Father of Virgil Jessee, John Jessee, William Jessee, George M. Jessee, Jr., and Elizabeth P. Jessee. Member of the Resolutions Committee of the Democracy and Old Line Whigs of Henry County in 1856. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1857 to 1858. Farmer in Henry County in 1860. Owned seventeen enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Served in Jessee’s Battalion, Mounted Rifles (C.S.A.) as captain from July 22, 1862. Served in the 6th Battalion Confederate Cavalry (C.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel from May 21, 1864.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 429.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Subdivision 1, p. 183B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 344.

Kentucky, Confederate Pension Records, 1912-1930, Henry County, June 15, 1912 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 400-401.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0070.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations Raised Directly by the Confederate Government, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M258, Roll 0011.

Jno P. Smith, “Meeting in Henry County,” Daily Courier (Louisville, KY), Jun 26, 1856, p. 2.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Begun and Held in the Town of Frankfort on Monday, the Seventh Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord, 1857, and of the Commonwealth, the Sixty-Sixth (Frankfort: A. G. Hodges, 1857), 4.

Citation

Jessee, George McCracken. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200368 (November 12, 2026).

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