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Charles Wickliffe (Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier, killed at Shiloh)

b. 1819-05-06 d. 1862-04-27

Ballard County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Nephew of Kentucky's 14th Governor Charles A. Wickliffe. Attorney in Ballard County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Ballard County in 1860. Member of a meeting to organize a statewide Southern Rights party in Frankfort on March 20, 1861. Served in the Bland County Militia as colonel in August 1861. Served in the 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as colonel from October 31, 1861. Died from wounds received at the Battle of Shiloh on April 27, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandville, p. 277B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Tharps, p. 680.

Berry Craig, Kentucky Confederates: Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2014), 52-53.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

"Charles Wickliffe (1819-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial #65594472, accessed June 9, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65594472.

KYR-0001-019-0115.

Citation

Wickliffe, Charles. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202870 (November 12, 2026).

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