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Sanders Dewees Bruce (Fayette County, KY, china merchant, county court clerk, col 20th Ky Inf, commander 22nd Brig Army of Cumb USA)

b. 1825-08-18 d. 1902-01-31

Fayette County, Kentucky, merchant, court clerk, and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Labelle S. Bruce. Father of Leslie C. Bruce, F. T. Bruce, M. T. Bruce, and K. D. Bruce. Graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1846. China merchant in Fayette County in 1850. County court clerk in Lexington in 1860. Served in the Lexington Chasseurs (U.S.A.) as a captain in 1860. Served in the 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 6, 1862, to January 18, 1862. Served in the 22nd Brigade of the Army of the Cumberland (U.S.A.) as a commander from January 18, 1862, to June 24, 1864.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 222B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 1, p. 544.

"Col. S. D. Bruce, The Times ( New York, NY), January 23, 1898.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 327.

John Dean Wright, Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass (Lexington: Lexington-Fayette County Historic Commission, 1982), 86.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 36.

"Sanders Dewees Bruce (1825-1902)," Find A Grave, Memorial 10581242, accessed June 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10581242.

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Bruce, Sanders Dewees. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210463 (November 12, 2026).

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