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Roger Weightman Hanson (Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.)

b. 1827-08-27 d. 1863-01-02

Fayette County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Clark County, Kentucky, native. Son of Samuel Hanson and Matilda Hickman Hanson. Married to Virginia Peters Hanson in Woodford County on November 15, 1853. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for House of Representatives from Kentucky District 8 in 1857. Attorney in Fayette County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Fayette County in 1860. Household owned an additional three enslaved persons in Fayette County in 1860. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry as first lieutenant in 1846. Served in the 1st Regiment Kentucky State Guard as commander, mustered in September 3, 1861. Served in the 2nd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a colonel from September 2, 1861, to December 13, 1862. Captured at Fort Donelson, Stewart County, Tennessee, on February 16, 1862. Prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, until July 31, 1862. Promoted to brigadier general on December 13, 1862. Killed in action at Murfreesboro, Rutherford County, Tennessee, on January 2, 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 567.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington/3rd Ward, p. 59.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0083.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film #000252320.

William A. Penn, Kentucky Rebel Town: The Civil War Battles of Cynthiana and Harrison County (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2016), 18.

William Terrell Lewis, Genealogy of the Lewis Family in America, From the Middle of the Seventeenth Century Down to the Present Time (Louisville: The Courier-Journal Printing Job, 1893), 168-169.

Citation

Hanson, Roger Weightman. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205442 (November 12, 2026).

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