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Andrew J. Banta (Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, sheriff, and soldier (CSA))

b. 1824-08-03 d. 1911-12-18

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer, sheriff, and soldier. Married to Elizabeth Banta. Father of Judy L. Banta, John P. Banta, Margaret Banta, Peter M. Banta, and Naoma C. Banta. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Employed Thomas Shanks as a laborer in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Owned eight enslaved persons in 1860. Sheriff of Nicholas County in 1861. Served in the 1st Battalion Mounted Rifles (C.S.A.) as a private from October 22, 1861, to November 20, 1862. Served in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private in June 1864. Served in the 9th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private in June 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 419A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 472.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 9.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 279A.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Rolls 0047, 0006, 0001.

Find A Grave, "Andrew J. Banta (1824-1911)," Memorial #6273969, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6273969 (accessed November 29, 2017).

Grant Green, Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861 (Frankfort, KY: John B. Major, 1862), p. 195.

KYR-0001-029-0596.

Citation

Banta, Andrew J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211148 (November 12, 2026).

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