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John B. Edmunson (Webster County and Hopkins County, KY, farmer )

b. 1825?

Hopkins County and Webster County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Misseniah Edmunson. Father of John Edmunson, Sally A. Edmunson, James Edmunson, Lucy Edmunson, Joseph Edmunson, and William Edmunson. Farmer in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Webster County in 1860. Served in Corbett's (Harris) Battery Artillery (C.S.A.) as a private from April 1862 to October 1862. Reported as captured and paroled at the Battle of Perryville.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 67B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, p. 570.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0075.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 482-3.

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Edmunson, John B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203478 (November 12, 2026).

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