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John Brent Fishback (Louisville/Garrard/Pulaski /1st KY Cav)

b. 1841?

Pulaski County, Kentucky, farmer, soldier, and notary public. Garrard County, Kentucky, native. Son of William Norval Fishback and Harriet McClary Fishback. Laborer in Pulaski County, Kentucky, in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first sergeant, first lieutenant, and captain from October 28, 1861, to June 14th, 1864. Notary public in Garrard County in 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Pulaski County, Somerset, p. 160.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedule, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 240.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0004.

"Capt. John Brent Fishback (1841-1920)," Find A Grave, Memorial #14985996, accessed March 16, 2017, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14985996.

Genealogy of the Fishback Family in America The Descendants of John Fishback, The Emigrant, With An Historical Sketch of His Family and of the Colony at Germanna and Germantown, Virginia, 1714-1914 (New York: Thomas Madison Taylor, 1914), 151.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 42-43.

KYR-0001-007-0301.

Citation

Fishback, John Brent. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209035 (November 12, 2026).

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