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Benjamin F. Pumphrey (Garrard Co, Ky, house carpenter, pvt thru capt 27th Ky Inf. USA)

b. 1840? d. 1869-09

Garrard County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Harrison Pumphrey and Harriett Pumphrey. Resident of Garrard County in 1850. House carpenter in Garrard County in 1860. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private, sergeant major, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and captain from March 21, 1862, to August 17, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 208A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 689.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Illinois, McClean County, White Oak, p. 5.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 943.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 388.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #202714, Certificate #163715.

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Pumphrey, Benjamin F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209202 (November 12, 2026).

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