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Henry O. Wilds (Madison County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - Pvt. 1st Ky. Cav. U.S.A.)

b. 1837? d. 1864-06-10

Madison County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Farm laborer in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from October 28, 1861 to June 10, 1864. Killed in battle in Cobb County, Georgia, on June 10, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 359.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 440A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0013.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 20.

"Henry Owen Wilds (1837-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 9036858, accessed September 8, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/9036858.

Citation

Wilds, Henry O.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201123 (November 12, 2026).

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