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Lewis M. Perry (Henry County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier..)

b. 1836-09-01 d. 1917-07-10

Henry County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of William A. Perry and Caroline B. Perry. Clerk in Henry County in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Henry County in 1860. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private, sergeant major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and adjutant from January 2, 1862 to January 2, 1865.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 246.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Henry County, New Castle, p. 198A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 718-719.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0206.

Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, Louisville, KY, National 78380, State 4462.

History of Logan County, Illinois: Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Education. Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Chicago: Interstate Publishing Co., 1886), pp. 333-334.

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Perry, Lewis M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207488 (January 18, 2026).

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