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Solomon Huffman (Dearborn County, IN, farmer and soldier - 11th Ky Cav)

b. 1828?

Dearborn County, Indiana, farmer and soldier. Indiana native. Son of Conrad Hoffman and Elizabeth Hoffman. Married to Ann Webster. Father of Emmarietta Hoffman, Oliver Hoffman, Alex Hoffman, Ida Hoffman, Mary Jane Hoffman, and Ellen Hoffman. Farmer in Dearborn County, Indiana, in 1850. Farmer in Dearborn County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a first sergeant and second lieutenant from September 22, 1862, to July 15, 1865. Captured at the Battle of Hartsville, Sumner County, Tennessee, on December 7, 1862. Paroled on December 10, 1862.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dearborn County, Centre, p. 244B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dearborn County, Hogan, p. 512.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana, Dearborn County, Hogan, p. 452A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 108.

Citation

Huffman, Solomon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207490 (November 12, 2026).

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