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Benjamin W. Sharp (Columbus, Kentucky, attorney, mayor, and engineer)

b. 1821?

Columbus, Kentucky, attorney, mayor, and engineer. Pennsylvania native. Attorney in Hickman County, Kentucky, in 1860. President of the Hickman and Ballard County Agricultural and Mechanical Association in 1860. Mayor of Columbus, Kentucky, in 1861. Railroad engineer for the U.S. Army in 1862. Imprisoned in Memphis, Tennessee, by the Confederate Army.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hickman County, Columbus, p. 477.

"An Act to Incorporate the Hickman and Ballard County Agricultural and Mechanical Association," Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort, Ky.: J.B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 166-67.

Berry F. Craig, “Northern Conquerors and Southern Deliverers: The Civil War Comes to the Jackson Purchase,” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, vol. 73, no. 1 (1976): 17-30.

Berry Craig, Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014), 52-53.

Confederate Papers Relating to Citizens or Business Firms, 1861-1865, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M346, Roll 0922.

John E. L. Robertson and Ann E. Robertson, Paducah, Kentucky: A History (Charleston: The History Press, 2014).

Union Provost Marshals’ File of Papers Relating to individual Civilians, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M345, Roll 0242.

The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies ser. 1, vol. 52, pt. 2 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1890), 67, 89-90.

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Sharp, Benjamin W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201450 (November 12, 2026).

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