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William Lewis Nugent (Washington County, Mississippi, attorney, commissioner, lieutenant colonel, second lieutenant, captain, and assistant adjutant general (C.S.A.))

b. 1832-12-12 d. 1897-01-19

Washington County, Mississippi, attorney and soldier. Louisiana native. Married to Eleanor "Nellie" Smith Nugent in Washington County, Mississippi, on November 6, 1860. Student in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, in 1850. Graduate of Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport. Attorney in Washington County, Mississippi, in 1861. Commissioner of Deeds for the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Washington County in 1861. Served in the 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and second lieutenant from 1861 to August 15, 1863. Served in Ferguson's Brigade (C.S.A.) as captain and assistant adjutant general from August 15, 1863, to February 18, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Louisiana East Feliciana Parish, p. 217B.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students in Centenary College of Louisiana for the Academic Year 1851-52 (Jackson, LA: Southern Mirror Office Print, 1852), 6.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Generals and Staff Officers, and Nonregimental Enlisted Men, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M331, Roll 0188.

Susannah J. Ural, "'My Darling Nellie': A Southern Soldier's Letters Home ,” History Net, February 2014, accessed July 7, 2021, https://www.historynet.com/darling-nellie-southern-soldiers-letters-home.htm.

"William Lewis Nugent (1832-1897)," Find A Grave, Memorial #11437607, accessed July 7, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11437607.

KYR-0001-017-0120.

KYR-0001-017-0136.

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Nugent, William Lewis. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210069 (November 12, 2026).

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