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William W. Swetnam (Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt 10th KY Cav USA)

b. 1838?

Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Joseph T. Swetnam and Mary “Polly” Atchison Swetnam. Student in Bath County in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Farmer in Bath County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 8, 1862, to September 17, 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 1, p. 77B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, p. 94.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bath County Marriages, 1814-1846, Film #000273004, p. 702 of 848 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 254.

Citation

Swetnam, William W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202053 (November 12, 2026).

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