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James W. Blalock (Caldwell Co, Ky, farm laborer; pvt 8th Cav, sgt 12th Cav)

b. 1839? d. 1903?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Jared Blalock and Mary A. Blalock. Married to Sarah A. Blalock. Father of H. P. Blalock. Student in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Caldwell County in 1860. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Princeton in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from September 6, 1862, to September 23, 1863. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Calvary Regiment (U.S.A.) as a sergeant from March 17, 1864, to August 23, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 355A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 28.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Princeton, p. 225B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Bucksnort, p. 415A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 214, 338.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Application #796.569, Certificate #579.299.

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Blalock, James W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209780 (November 12, 2026).

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