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Robert J. C. Gailbreath (Jackson County, Tennessee, farmer and soldier)

b. 1829?

Gainesboro, Jackson County, Tennessee, farmer and soldier. Tennessee native. Married to Mariah McClenden Gailbreath. Father of Rosaline Gailbreath, William Gailbreath, Frances Gailbreath, and Thomas Gailbreath. Farmer in Jackson County in 1850. Farmer in Jackson County in 1860. Served as second lieutenant in the 8th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (C.S.A.) from May 17, 1861, to May 24, 1862. Served as captain in the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) from August 22, 1862, to January 1863.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Jackson County, District 11, p. 321B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States_ (1860), Population Schedules, Tennessee, Jackson County, District 11, p. 281.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M268, Rolls 19, 151, and 208.
Tennessee Death Records, 1908-1958, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Jackson County, 1923, p. 121.
Find A Grave, “Capt Robert James Campbell Gailbreath," Memorial #6682801, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6682801# (accessed December 21, 2018).

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Gailbreath, Robert J. C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207596 (November 12, 2026).

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