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William Shriver (Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant (U.S.A.))

b. 1840?

Jefferson County, Kentucky, student, laborer, and soldier. Virginia native. Son of William W. Shriver and Caroline Shriver. Student in Ohio County, Virginia, in 1850. Laborer in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1861. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry (U.S.A.) as a corporal, quartermaster sergeant, adjutant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant from December 1861 to July 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Virginia, Ohio County, District 44, p. 103 A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 88, 100.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application 1294919, Certificate #1059559.

KYR-0001-021-0015

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Shriver, William. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205054 (November 12, 2026).

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