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Webster County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. New York native. Married to Martha Kuykendall Herrick in Webster County, Kentucky, on March 18, 1863. Father of Nathaniel Herrick and Mary J. Herrick. Farmer in Webster County, Kentucky, in 1863. Served as a private in Leonidas A. Sypert's 12th Regiment of Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.). Captured in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on August 22, 1864. Imprisoned at Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky, and Camp Douglas, Illinois, from December 14, 1864, to May 13, 1865.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Webster County, District 5, Subdivision 166, p. 16.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0136.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Webster County, KY, June 1863, p. 10.

Citation

Herrick, Spencer. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210028 (November 12, 2026).

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Petition
Hiram H. Smith et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-19

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