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Hamilton Pope (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and brigadier general )

b. 1817 d. 1893-11-28

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and brigadier general. Louisville native. Married to Henrietta Prather Pope. Studied law under and practiced with Charles M. Thruston. Attorney in partnership with J. G. Barrett. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1845 and 1848. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1850 to 1851. Brigadier general of the State Guard in Louisville. Commanded the Louisville Home Guards, which accompanied William T. Sherman on an expedition towards Muldraugh’s Hill in 1861.

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Bibliography

J.M. Armstrong & Company, The Biographical Encyclopaedia of Kentucky (Cincinnati, 1878), 173-174. Thomas Speed, The Union Regiments of Kentucky (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1897), 24, 28, 427. “Death of Hamilton Pope,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), November 30, 1893, p. 5. Find A Grave, "Hamilton Pope (1817-1893)," Memorial #155572314, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/155572314 (accessed July, 25, 2017).

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Pope, Hamilton. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32203908 (November 12, 2026).

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