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Philemon Burgess Hunt (Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier)

b. 1837 d. 1915

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Gavin Drummond Hunt and Letitia Hunt. Resident in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1850. Clerk in Lexington in 1860. Household owned eighteen enslaved persons in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a major and lieutenant colonel from October 9, 1861 to April 13, 1864. Resigned from service because of wounds received at the Battle of Chickamauga.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 233B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 709.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 418-419.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 453B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Precinct 5, p. 121B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0184.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #52108, Certificate #43744.

"Philemon Burgess Hunt (1837-1915)," Find A Grave, Memorial #1937480, accessed June 9, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1937480.

Citation

Hunt, Philemon Burgess. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201019 (November 12, 2026).

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