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John Boyd Tilford, Jr. (Assistant Adjutant General of Kentucky)

b. 1834? d. 1902-05-21

Louisville, Kentucky, businessman, farmer, and soldier. Clerk in Louisville in 1860. Major and assistant adjutant general of Kentucky from 1864 to 1865.

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Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 4, p. 14.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii.

"Maj. Tilford was Buried in Frankfort," _Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), May 23, 1902.

Citation

Tilford, John Boyd, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200729 (November 12, 2026).

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