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Benjamin M. Winston (Union County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier)

b. 1815?

Union County, Kentucky, merchant, postmaster, and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Annie Elizabeth Long Winston in Union County on September 26, 1850. Father of Charles Winston, Louisa Winston, Virginia Winston, and William Winston. Merchant in Union County in 1850. Postmaster for Caseyville in Union County from July 6, 1853, to June 26, 1855. Merchant in Union County in 1860. Owned seven enslaved persons in Union County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Served in Winston's Scouts (C.S.A.) as a captain from 1861 to 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, District 2, p. 519A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Caseyville, p. 559.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Caseyville, p. 420A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Henderson County, Henderson Ward 2, p. 106B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 529C.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Union County Marriages, Film 000562200.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication M841, Records of the Post Office Department, RG 28, Union County, Kentucky, Volume 14, p. 732.

U. S. War Department. The War of the Rebellion: Formal reports, both Union and Confederate, of the first seizures of United States property in the Southern States. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1897. Volume 53, pp. 1161, 1173-4, 1303.

KYR-0001-029-0538.

KYR-0001-029-0539.

KYR-0004-033-0001.

Citation

Winston, Benjamin M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208464 (November 12, 2026).

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