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Columbus Dodson (Ballard County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier.)

b. 1845?

Ballard County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of David N. Dodson, Sr., and Mary Campbell Dodson. Farmhand in Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Ballard County in 1860. Served in the 14th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from July 8, 1863 to August 8, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 597.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Picketts District, p. 43A.

Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion, Together with Historical Sketches of Volunteer Organization, 1861-1866, vol. II (Des Moines, IA: Emory H. English, State Printer, 1908), pp. 799, 861.

Citation

Dodson, Columbus. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202400 (November 12, 2026).

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