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James W. Alcorn (Lincoln County, Kentucky, resident, lawyer, notary public, and soldier)

b. 1838-07-21 d. 1914-06

Lincoln County, Kentucky, lawyer, notary public, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Alford Alcorn and Mary Walker Alcorn. Married to Sophia Kindrick Alcorn in Lincoln County, Kentucky, on September 13, 1865. Resident in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned fifteen enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Attorney in Lincoln County in 1860. Notary public in Lincoln County. Served in the 6th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A) as a first lieutenant and adjutant from July 28, 1862 to June 12, 1865. Captured in Cheshire, Ohio, on July 20, 1863. Sent to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a prisoner of war on August 4, 1863. Prisoner of War in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1864. Prisoner of war at Old Capitol Prison in Washington D.C., on July 16, 1864. Prisoner of war at Fort Delaware in Delaware, on July 23, 1864. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on June 12, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 1, p. 275B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 5.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, Stanford, p. 117B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lincoln County Marriages, Film 001904136, p. 85.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0036.

“Prominent Citizen of Lincoln County Passes Away Yesterday at His Home in Stanford,” Kentucky Advocate, (Danville, Kentucky), June 29, 1914, pg. 1.

"James Walker Alcorn (1838-1914)," Find A Grave, Memorial 28756216, accessed October 31, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28756216.

Citation

Alcorn, James W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32209984 (November 12, 2026).

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