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Virgil M. Pendleton (Kentucky, attorney, pvt 1st KY Inf CSA & captain 8th KY Cav CSA)

b. 1822? d. 1863-03-27

Iowa attorney and Kentucky soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Edmund Pendleton. Married to Mary J. Pendleton. Father of William Pendleton, Elisha Pendleton and Ida Pendleton. Resident of Clark County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Des Moines County, Iowa, in 1860. Enlisted in the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private on June 1, 1861, and was mustered out on May 13, 1862. Enlisted in the 8th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a captain on September 10, 1862, and served until his death at Mount Sterling, Kentucky, on March 27, 1863, from wounds received in battle.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 1, p. 92A-B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Iowa, Des Moines County, Burlington, p. 128.

"Capt Virgil M. Pendleton (1821-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial #87789355, accessed November 15, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87789355.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0046 and 0078.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 730-31.

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Pendleton, Virgil M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201176 (November 12, 2026).

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