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Starling Pittman (Clinton County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier)

b. 1839 d. 1897

Clinton County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of James Pittman and Emelline Pittman. Married to Rebecca Rogers Pittman in Adair County, Kentucky, on August 3, 1863. Father of Catherine Pittman. Resident of Pulaski County in 1850. Farm laborer in Clinton County in 1860. Household owned two enslaved persons in Clinton County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 31, 1861 to January 12, 1865. Court martialed and sentenced to forfeit pay. Returned to service. Wounded at the Battle of Campbell's Station, Knox County, Tennessee, on November 16, 1863.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Division 2, p. 128B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, p. 274-5.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clinton County, p. 353A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Precinct 2, p. 451A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, 001904584.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 863.

"Sterling K. R. Pittman (1839-1867)," Find A Grave, Memorial 105701370, accessed November 28, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/105701370.

Citation

Pittman, Starling. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200510 (November 12, 2026).

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