Person

Lloyd Tilghman (Paducah, Kentucky, civil engineer and soldier)

b. 1816-01-18 d. 1863-05-16

Paducah, Kentucky, civil engineer and soldier. Maryland native. Son of James Tilghman and Anne Caroline Shoemaker Tilghman. Married to Augusta Murray Boyd Tilghman on May 26, 1843. Father of Lloyd Tilghman, Fred Tilghman, Slidell Tilghman, and Horatia Tilghman. Graduated from the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, in 1836. Served in the First U.S. Dragoons in 1836. Resigned from the U.S. Army. Civil engineer in Panama and throughout many southern states, building railroads and canals, from 1836 to 1861. Veteran of the Mexican-American War. Relocated to Paducah, Kentucky, in 1852. Owned two enslaved persons in Paducah in 1860. Colonel in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) from July 1861 to October 1861. Promoted to brigadier general in October 1861. Commanded troops at Fort Donelson and Fort Henry in Tennessee. Prisoner of war following the surrender of Fort Donelson and transferred to Fort Warren in Massachusetts from February 1862 to July 1862. Ordered to Mississippi in August 1862. Reassigned in October 1862 to command a division of General Mansfield Lovell in Mississippi.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Disctrict No. 2, Paducah, p. 127. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, McCracken County, Disctrict No. 2, Paducah, p. 19. Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, eds., Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 264-270. James W. Raab, Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman: A Biography (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc, 2004), 9, 33, 107; Find A Grave, "Lloyd Tilghman (January 18, 1816 - May 16, 1863)," Memorial #11093, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11093/lloyd-tilghman (accessed January 18, 2018).

Citation

Tilghman, Lloyd. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204387 (November 12, 2026).

The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Lloyd Tilghman (Paducah, Kentucky, civil engineer and soldier). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

Documents (9)

People

Organizations

Places

Loading network...

Network Visualized

How to use the visualization

CWGK’s network visualization brings the edition’s documents to life. The network on this page centers around Tilghman, Lloyd. Click on the light blue dot to see the documents in which the entity appears. You can also click on the dark orange dots to see other people linked to Tilghman, Lloyd, a light orange dot to see the places connected to Tilghman, Lloyd, or dark green dots to see organizations linked to Tilghman, Lloyd.

Additionally, the lines between the dots add additional information. The light green lines demonstrate direct connections between Tilghman, Lloyd and another person, place, or organization. The light pink lines highlight that the dots appear in the same document.