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Leonidas Denny (Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, farm hand and lieutenant)

b. 1840

Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky, farm hand and lieutenant. Kentucky native. Son of Walter Denny and Eliza J. Denny. Married to Sarah T. Campbell Denny. Farm hand in Mercer County in 1860. Enrolled in 20th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.). Promoted from corporal to sergeant on March 26, 1862. Promoted to 1st sergeant on November 24, 1862. Promoted to 1st lieutenant on April 1, 1863. Dismissed from service on February 9, 1864.

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Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrodsburg, p. 46.
Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marshall, Marshall, p. 44.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 40.
Find A Grave, "L. Denny(1840-Death)," Memorial #35958329, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35958329 (accessed January 17, 2019).

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Denny, Leonidas. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210668 (November 12, 2026).

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