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Nelson C. Lawrence (Indiana & KY musican; pvt 7th IN Inf & 8th Ky Cav; maj 17th Ky Cav (all USA))

b. 1840? d. 1918?

Indiana and Kentucky musician and soldier. Indiana native. Son of Lucy Lawrence. Student in LaGrange County, Indiana, in 1850. Served in the 7th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a musician from April 23, 1861, to August 6, 1861. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 13, 1862, to September 23, 1863. Served in the 17th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as major from March 28, 1865, to September 28, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Indiana, LaGrange County, Newberry, p. 43B.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 140.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 4, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer,1866), 37.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 216.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #657674, Certificate #525013.

Find A Grave, "Maj Nelson C. Lawrence (1840-1918)," Memorial #102115977, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102115977 (accessed December 18, 2020).

Citation

Lawrence, Nelson C.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207622 (November 12, 2026).

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