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Michael Henry Owsley (Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney, capt & major in 1st & 5th Cav (USA))

b. 1834-12-10 d. 1891

Cumberland County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Cumberland County native. Son of Joel Owsley and Mary Owsley. Married to Ellen Letcher Owsley in 1865. Graduate of Centre College in 1854. Graduate of the University of Louisville in 1856. Student in Cumberland County in 1850. Household owned twenty-three enslaved persons in Cumberland County in 1850. Attorney in Cumberland County in 1860. Served in the 1st Regiment Kentucky Cavalry (U.S.A.) as captain in 1861. Served in the 5th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry as major from March 31, 1862, to September 5, 1862. Commonwealth's attorney for the Sixth Judicial District from 1864 to 1868.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, p. 279B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Cumberland Division, p. 371 (p. 2 of microfilm).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Cumberland County, Burkesville, District 1, p. 659.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Lancaster, District 3, p. 432B.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 34-35 and 108-09.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 940.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0009.

John J. McAfee, Kentucky Politicians. Sketches of Representative Corncrackers and other Miscellany (Louisville, KY: The Courier Journal Job Printing Company, 1886), 128-30.

Francis B. Heitman, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army, vol. 2, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1903), 134.

Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans who served between 1861 and 1900, Civil War Pensions Index, roll no. 171.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 10.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-50.

Find A Grave, "Judge Michael Henry Owsley (1834-1891)," Memorial #91718641, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91718641 (accessed May 25, 2017).

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Owsley, Michael Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208655 (November 12, 2026).

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