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William Scott Ketchum (Washington, D.C., bvt. major general (U.S.A) )

b. 1813-07-07 d. 1871-06-28

Washington, District of Columbia, Major General (U.S.A). Fairfield County, Connecticut native. Son of Daniel Ketchum. Married Ann P. McMullin Ketchum in Leon County, Florida, on 04 August 1840. Married Rebecca O. White Ketchum. Father of James D. Ketchum. Graduate of U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1834. Served in the 6th Infantry as captain from 1835 to 1842 during the Second Seminole War. Served in the 6th Infantry as captain in 1857 during the Cheyenne Expedition. Employed Maggie Rouen in San Diego, California, in 1860. Served in 4th Infantry (U.S.A.) as captain and lieutenant colonel from 1860 to 1861. Served in the U.S. Volunteers as brigadier general, bvt. colonel, colonel, and bvt. major general from 1862 to 1865. Served on special duty in the adjutant general's department from 1865 to 1870.

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Bibliography

Find A Grave, "William Scott Ketchum (1813-1871)," Memorial #6060, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6060/william-scott-ketchum (accessed April 7, 2019).

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, California, San Diego, San Diego, p. 766.

Marriage Records. Florida MarriagesVarious Florida County Courthouses and State Archive, Tallahassee, Florida, Leon County Marriages, 1841.

John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, eds., Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography (New York: D. Appleton and Company, c1886), p. 528.

William Chalfant, Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition of Solomon's Fork (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. 121, 246.

Citation

Ketchum, William Scott. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210729 (November 12, 2026).

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