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Louis Douglas Watkins (Colonel of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.))

b. 1835? d. 1868-03-28

Kentucky, soldier. Florida native. Married to Mary E. Rousseau Watkins in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 4, 1864. Served in the 14th United States Infantry Regiment as a first lieutenant from May 14, 1861 to June 22, 1861. Served in the 5th United States Cavalry Regiment as a first lieutenant and captain from June 22, 1861 to January 1863. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from February 1, 1863 to June 24, 1864. Brevetted brigadier general on June 24, 1864.

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Bibliography

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482710, p. 26-27.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 136-37.

"Louis Douglas Watkins," Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 6, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 388.

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Watkins, Louis Douglas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32206994 (February 6, 2026).

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