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William Alfred Attersall (Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, lieutenant)

b. 1841 d. 1908

Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky, lieutenant. Native of Marylebone, Middlesex, England. Son of Thomas Attersall and Dinah Attersall. Married to Charlotte Boro Attersall in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 22, 1865. Served in the 20th Kentucky Infantry (U.S.A.) from 1862 to 1865. Promoted from corporal to 2nd sergeant on December 16, 1862. Promoted to 2nd lieutenant on March 1, 1863. Commissioned as 1st lieutenant on June 28, 1864, but never mustered as such. Provost marshal from June 1864 to August 1864. On duty at military prison in Louisville, Kentucky, in December 1864. Mustered out on January 17, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Bibliography

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 36, 906.
Find A Grave, "Name (Birth-Death)," Memorial #47352700, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47352700 (accessed January 18, 2019).
England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915, Registration year 1841, Registration Quarter Jan-Feb-Mar, (London, England: General Register Office), p. 159.
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851., (Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1851.), Class: HO107, Piece: 1490, Folio: 286, Page: 50, GSU roll: 87817-87818.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, County, City/District, p. 13.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 398.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819620.

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Attersall, William Alfred. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211122 (November 12, 2026).

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