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John Hardin McHenry, Jr. (Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney and col 2nd Reg KY Enr Militia)

b. 1832-02-21 d. 1893-07-07

Daviess County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Hardin McHenry and Hannah Davis McHenry. Medical student in Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned thirteen enslaved persons in Ohio County in 1850. Attorney in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Owensboro in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from December 1861 to December 9, 1862. Dismissed from service on December 9, 1862, by order of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton after issuing an order returning enslaved persons to their masters. Attorney in Daviess County in 1863. Served in the 2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia as colonel until July 7, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 44B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, p. 6.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 945.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Daviess County, Owensboro, District 2, p. 1.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Daviess County, KY, July 1863, p. 332 (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0304.

John Howard Brown, ed., Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States, Vol. 5: Leaming-Newton (Boston, MA: Federal Book Company of Boston, 1903), 250.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 936.

Find A Grave, "John Hardin McHenry (1832-1893)," Memorial #43471865, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/43471865 (accessed November 13, 2020).

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McHenry, John Hardin, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201477 (November 12, 2026).

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