Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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Jessamine County, Kentucky, sheriff and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Hester Chrisman. Father of Lucy J. Chrisman, Addison L. Chrisman, Anna T. Chrisman, Margaret P. Chrisman, and George L. Chrisman. Founding member of the Jessamine Female Institute in 1854. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in 1860. Sheriff of Jessamine County from 1858 to 1860. Captain of the Jessamine County Home Guard in 1861. Served as a volunteer aid to General William R. Terrell of the United States Army.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 76.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jessamine County, p. 18.

Bennett H. Young, _A History of Jessamine County, Kentucky: From its Earliest Settlement to 1898 (Louisville: Courier-Journal Job Printing Company, 1898), 176 and 243.

KYR-0002-022-0067.

Citation

Chrisman, Louis H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208870 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
L. H. Christman to Samuel Gill
1861-06

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