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Malon Quillen (Letcher County, KY, farm laborer and private 13th KY Cav CSA & private 1st Reg Capital Guards (USA))

b. 1844?

Letcher County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Henry Quillen and Elizabeth Quillen. Resident of Letcher County in 1850. Farm laborer in Letcher County in 1860. Mustered into service in the 13th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private on October 4, 1862. Served in the Sandy Valley Battalion of the 1st Regiment Kentucky Guards (U.S.A.) as a private from May 10, 1864, to September 12, 1864. Reported as deserted on September 12, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Letcher, District 2, p. 134B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Letcher, p. 694.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 154.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 774.

Citation

Quillen, Malon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206281 (November 12, 2026).

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