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Alexander C Casseday (Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and soldier (CSA).)

b. 1836-01-23 d. 1862-03-21

Louisville, Kentucky, clerk, attorney, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Casseday and Eliza McFarland. Married to Nannie Craik on April 29, 1859. Clerk in Louisville in 1850. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Served as Lieutenant Colonel in the Ninth Kentucky Infantry (C.S.A.) in October 3, 1861. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase in Ohio. Died as prisoner of war on March 21, 1862 in Columbus, Ohio.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 364.
Luke E. Harlow, Religion, Race, and the Making of Confederate Kentucky, 1830 - 1880 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 157-158;
Stephen Douglas Lynn, Confederate Soldiers of Kentucky: A Roster of Veterans, 1861 - 1865 (Lexington: Stephen Douglas Lynn, 2002), 516;
Find A Grave, "Major Alexander C. "Alex" Cassedy (January 23, 1836 - March 21, 1862)," Memorial #9901786, https://www.findagrave.com/9901786 (accessed June 26, 2017);
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #005558615, p.425. (accessed via familysearch.org)
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Florida, Jefferson, Louisville District 3, p. 332B.
Find A Grave, "Major Alexander C. "Alex" Cassedy (January 23, 1836 - March 21, 1862)," Memorial #90518344, https://www.findagrave.com/90518344 (accessed April 17, 2019);

Citation

Casseday, Alexander C. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32205702 (November 12, 2026).

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