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Samuel Oscar Berry (Woodford County, KY, soldier and guerilla (C.S.A.) ("One-Arm"))

b. 1838? d. 1873-07-03

Woodford County, Kentucky, soldier and guerrilla. Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Oscar Berry and Elizabeth McGraw Berry. Married to Amanda C. Rose in Mercer County in June 1862. Graduated from the state normal school in Lexington, Kentucky. Teacher in Mercer County, Kentucky from 1858 to 1861. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as first sergeant from November 1, 1862, to February 28, 1863. Operated as a guerrilla (C.S.A.) with Marcellus Jerome Clarke, Henry C. Magruder, and Isaiah Coalter in Anderson and adjacent counties in 1864 and 1865. Captured by a detachment of the 2nd U.S. Infantry under the command of Major Cyrus J. Wilson in Nelson County in December 1865.

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Bibliography

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Mercer County Marriages, Film #000191864, p. 121.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 672-73.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0036.
Thomas Franklin Berry, Four Years with Morgan and Forest (Oklahoma City: The Harlow-Ratliff Company, 1914), 2, 6, 460.
Steven L. Wright, Kentucky Soldiers and their Regiments in the Civil War, Abstracted from the Pages of Contemporary Newspapers, v. 5, (Utica, KY: McDowell Publications, 2009), 245.
Find A Grave, "Samuel Oscar Berry (1838-1873)," Memorial #11674860, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11674860 (accessed January 8, 2020).
KYR-0002-225-0060.

Citation

Berry, Samuel Oscar. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203185 (November 12, 2026).

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