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Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (Oldham County, KY, attorney, merchant, and U. S. Army general )

b. 1819-05-15 d. 1893-10-23

Oldham County, Kentucky, attorney, merchant, and soldier. Russellville, Kentucky, native. Son of John Jordan Crittenden and Sarah "Sally" Lee Crittenden. Married to Katherine "Kittie" Todd Crittenden. Father of John J. Crittenden. Admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1840. Elected commonwealth’s attorney in Kentucky in 1842. Served in the Kentucky Infantry as a private from August 17, 1836, to September 18, 1836. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Infantry in the U.S.-Mexican War from October 4, 1847, to July 21, 1848. Consul to Liverpool, England, from 1849 to 1853. Merchant in Oldham County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the U.S. Army as brigadier general and major general from September 27, 1861, to December 13, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Oldham County, p. 888.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Dakota Territory, Fort Scully and Vicinity, p. 189.

Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders, (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 100-01.

Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, from its Organization, September 29, 1789, to March 2, 1903, vol. 1 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1903), 339.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 960.

"Thomas Leonidas Crittenden (1819-1893)," Find A Grave, Memorial #5894064, accessed September 9, 2019, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5894064.

The Union army: a history of military affairs in the loyal states, 1861-65—records of the regiments in the Union army—cyclopedia of battles—memoirs of commanders and soldiers Vol. 8 (Madison, WI: Federal Publishing Company, 1908), 63.

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Crittenden, Thomas Leonidas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203730 (November 12, 2026).

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