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Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley (Lexington, Kentucky, physician and soldier)

b. 1818-02-25 d. 1862-02-20

Lexington, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Fayette County, Kentucky, native. Son of Ambrose and Martha Catherine Ludlow Dudley. Married to Mary Dewees Scott Dudley. Father of Scott Dudley and Louise Dudley. Graduate of Harvard University School of Law. Graduate of Transylvania Medical School in Lexington in 1842. Physician in Lexington from 1842 to 1862. Demonstrator of anatomy at Transylvania University. Chair of general and pathological anatomy at Transylvania University from 1847. Editor of the Transylvania Medical Journal from 1849 to 1851. Chair of descriptive anatomy and histology at the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville in 1859. Physician in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1860. Chair of surgical anatomy and operative surgery at the Kentucky School of Medicine in Louisville in 1861. Served in the 21st Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 21, 1861, to February 20, 1862.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 391.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 68.
Find A Grave, "Col Ethelbert Ludlow Dudley (February 25, 1818- February 22, 1862)," Memorial #21079869, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21079869 (accessed June 12, 2017).
Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage, American Medical Biographies (Baltimore: The Norman, Remington Company, 1920), 340.

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Dudley, Ethelbert Ludlow. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201050 (November 12, 2026).

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