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Peter Dudley (Frankfort, Military Board, Adj Gen'l and farmer)

b. 1787-03-21 d. 1869-06-17

Frankfort, Kentucky, soldier and farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Maria Garrard Dudley on November 15, 1815. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Light Infantry Regiment as captain from March 29, 1812, to April 28, 1812, and from March 9, 1813, to September 9, 1813. Served in Dudley's Regiment of Kentucky Mounted Volunteer Militia as major from September 20, 1814, to November 20, 1814. Adjutant general of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from December 10, 1829, to 1851. Farmer in Franklin County, Kentucky, in 1860. Owned sixteen enslaved persons in Franklin County in 1860. Member of the Military Board of Kentucky from May 24,1861, to March 15, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, p. 8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District No. 2, pp. 2-3.

Reports Communicated to Both Branches of the Legislature of Kentucky, (Frankfort: A. G. Hodgers, 1844), 183.

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, (Frankfort: W.E Hughes, Public Printer, 1861), 5.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), VII.

G. Glenn Clift, Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969), 79.

Minnie S. Wilder, Kentucky Soldiers of the War of 1812 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1995), 79, 214, 308.

Anna Russell Des Cognets, Governor Garrard of Kentucky: His Descendants and Relatives (Lexington, Ky.: James M. Byrnes, 1898), 87.

Lewis Collins and Richard H. Collins, Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Covington, KY: Collins & Co., 1874), 91.

Citation

Dudley, Peter. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203856 (November 12, 2026).

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