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William B. Chapman (Claiborne County, Tennessee, schoolteacher and private 7th Ky Inf USA)

b. 1817? d. 1862-09-22

Claiborne County, Tennessee, schoolteacher and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Ann E. Chamberland Chapman in Knox County, Tennessee, on November 25, 1841. Father of Lucy B. Chapman, Mary E. Chapman, Minerva C. Chapman, James J. Chapman, and Sarah E. Chapman. Teacher in Claiborne County in 1850. Schoolteacher in Claiborne County in 1860. Served in the 7th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from September 22, 1861, to September 22, 1862. Died in military service in Clay County, Kentucky, on September 22, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Claiborne County, Subdivision 7, p. 272B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Claiborne, Subdivision 9, p. 340.

Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, TN, Knox County Marriages, 1793-1956.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 752.

KYR-0001-021-0031.

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Chapman, William B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202799 (November 12, 2026).

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