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Elijah E. Reed (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer & pvt, 4th Ky Inf USA)

b. 1828?

Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Reed and Elizabeth Reed. Married to Lorena Brown Reed in Mercer County, Kentucky, in May 1851. Father of James M. Reed, Samuel Reed, John T. Reed, and George W. Reed. Farmer in Mercer County in 1850. Farmhand in Mercer County in 1860. Farmer in Mercer County in 1863. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from March 24, 1864, to August 9, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, X Mercer County, District 2, p. 322A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, District 2, p. 671.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 4, p. 482A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Mercer County, KY, June and July 1863, p. 11.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 656-57.

Citation

Reed, Elijah E.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207142 (November 12, 2026).

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