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Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA)

b. 1839-08-14 d. 1909-10-09

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Lincoln County native. Son of James Adams and Lila Adams. Married to Josephine Adams. Father of James William Adams. Student in Lincoln County in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1863. Served in the 19th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from January 2, 1862, to January 26, 1865. Captured in battle at Sabine Crossroads, Louisiana, on April 8, 1864. Prisoner of war from April 8, 1864, to October 23, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 308A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 87.

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), Lincoln County, KY, August 1863, p. 2, (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 27-28.

Find A Grave, “Joel Adams (1836-1865)," Memorial # 5548726, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5548726/joel-adams (accessed January 11, 2021).

Citation

Adams, Joel. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201650 (November 12, 2026).

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