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Henry Bishop Brodess (Boyd County, Kentucky, printer & 1st lieut 14th KY Inf; pvt, commissary sgt, & 2nd lieut 45th KY Mtd Inf USA)

b. 1830 d. 1881

Boyd County, Kentucky, printer and soldier. Maryland native. Married to Mary Eliza Gibbs. Father of Harry Brodess and Charles Brodess. Publisher of the anti-slavery American Union newspaper in Ashland, Kentucky. Served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. Served in the 14th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant from October 23, 1861, to November 17, 1862. Served in in the 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private, commissary sergeant, and second lieutenant from December 9, 1863, to February 14, 1865.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Ashland, p. 820.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Boyd County, Ashland, p. 69A.

A History of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786-1954 (Ashland, KY: Ashland Centennial Committee, 1954), p. 104.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 457.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0486.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0435.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #394,009, Certificate #293,259.

Find A Grave, "Henry Bishop Brodess (1830-1881)," Memorial #5246265, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5246265 (accessed July 6, 2020).

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Brodess, Henry Bishop. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32204852 (November 12, 2026).

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