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Joseph P. Gailbreath (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney)

b. 1825?

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney. Kentucky native. Son of Robert A. Gailbreath and Mary "Polly" Gailbreath. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Household owned ten enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Attorney in Louisville in 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1862. Notary public in Louisville in 1862.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 202A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 242.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 2, p. 260B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bullitt County Marriages, Film 000482690, p. 23.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862.

"Jefferson County Court," Courier-Journal, (Louisville, KY), 4 March 1862, p. 3.

Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner's Louisville Directory, and Business Advertiser for 1861, (Louisville, KY: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency), 95.

Citation

Gailbreath, Joseph P.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201040 (November 12, 2026).

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