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Robert C. Purdy (Caldwell county, Kentucky, carpenter and pvt. 3rd ky mtd inf. (csa))

b. 1838 d. 1917

Caldwell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Charity Purdy. Resident in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Carpenter in Princeton in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry (C.S.A.) as a private from July 10, 1861 to April 15, 1864. Reported as deserted from Princeton on April 8, 1864. Prisoner of war at Louisville Military Prison. Signed a loyalty oath to the U. S. government on April 15, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 364B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 27.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 225B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 86, 98, 100-01.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0094.

"PVT Robert Cobb Purdy (1838-1917)," Find A Grave, Memorial #18512089, accessed July 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18512089.

Citation

Purdy, Robert C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204628 (November 12, 2026).

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