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Napoleon Bonaparte Dupuy, Sr. (Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier.)

b. 1837-03-01 d. 1863-04-18

Hancock County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Hancock County, Kentucky, native. Son of James Dupuy, Jr., and Mary Ann Maxey Dupuy. Married to Eusebia Ellis Dupuy in Hancock County, Kentucky, on March 6, 1856. Father of Fannie Dupuy, Elizabeth Dupuy, and Napoleon B. Dupuy, Jr. Resident of Hancock County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in 1850. Farmer in Hancock County in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from September 5, 1862, to April 18, 1863. Died in service on April 18, 1863.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 295B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, p. 955.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0056.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Hancock County Marriages, Film #000495729.

Oswald Jett, Hancock County, Kentucky, Volume 2: Pioneer Paths Widen, (Utica, KY: McDowell Publications, 1989), 250.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 64.

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Dupuy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Sr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210884 (November 12, 2026).

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