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Benjamin F. Blankenship (Harlan County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier)

b. 1833?

About

Harlan County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Virginia native. Married to Elizabeth Blankenship. Father of Emily Blankenship and Arthur Blankenship. Farmer in Harlan County in 1860. Served in the Harlan County Battalion of Kentucky State Militia as a major from October 1862 to January 1863. Served in the 47th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain from October 1863 to December 1864. Enrolled as captain in the Three Forks Battalion Regiment (U.S.A.) on March 1, 1865. Postmaster of Poor Fork in Harlan County, Kentucky, from June 1859 to July 1863 and September 1865 to December 1868.

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Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harlan County, p. 118.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 470, 787 and 883.

Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971, NARA Microfilm Publication, M841, Records of the Post Office Department, Record Group Number 28, accessed on ancestry.com (Washington, D.C.: National Archives) (accessed on May 4, 2017).

Citation

Blankenship, Benjamin F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210841 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
Benjamin F. Blankenship to James F. Robinson
Petition
Isaac N. Cardwell et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-07-15

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