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William Edwards (Henry County, Kentucky, grocery keeper and captain 9th KY Cav USA)

b. 1801?

Henry County, Kentucky, grocery keeper and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Joannah Edwards. Grocery keeper in Henry County in 1860. Owned four enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Served in the 9th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain from September 14, 1862, to September 11, 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Newcastle, p. 241.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, Newcastle, p. 198A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 245.

Citation

Edwards, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201974 (November 12, 2026).

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