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Walter G. Hodge (Posey County, Indiana, drover, miller, captain and lieutenant colonel (U.S.A.))

b. 1821? d. 1864-08-09

Posey County, Indiana, drover, miller and soldier. New York native. Son of John A. Hodge and Eveline Hodge. Married to Mary Pollard Hodge in Minerva County, New York, on November 1,1841. Father of Walter M. Hodge. Drover in Otsego County, New York, in 1850. Miller in Posey County, Indiana, in 1860. Served in the 1st Regiment of the Indiana Legion as captain from October 19, 1861, to September 3, 1862. Served in the 65th Indiana Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as lieutenant colonel and captain from August 11, 1862, to August 9, 1864. Died from disease in Cobb County, Georgia, on August 9, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, New York, Otsego County, Morris, p. 273B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Posey County, Black Township, p. 776.

U.S., Returns from Military Posts, 1806-1916, Records of the Adjutant General's Office, NARA Series M617, RG 94, Roll 1514.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Kentucky, Roll 220, Application 75587, Certificate 85081.

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC85081.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 3, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: Samuel M. Douglass, State Printer, 1866), p. 533, 598.

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Hodge, Walter G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210781 (November 12, 2026).

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