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Cicero Maxwell (Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney and soldier)

b. 1831-11-21 d. 1865-02-17

Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, commonwealth's attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Elizabeth Maxwell. Farmer in Ohio County, Kentucky in 1850. Commonwealth's attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Ohio County in 1860. Served in the 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from March 5, 1862 to January 12, 1865. Commander of the Military District of Southwest Kentucky from October 1863 to April 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 2, p. 94A.


Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 783.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1859 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1860), 289.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1860, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1861), 355.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861, Legislative Document Series, No. 1 (Frankfort, KY: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 304.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland Press, 2014), 174-175.

"Col Cicero Maxwell (1831-1865)," Find A Grave, Memorial 38618350, accessed August 20, 2019, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38618350.

Citation

Maxwell, Cicero. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209832 (November 12, 2026).

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