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Frederick H. Bierbower (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney. Capt & major 40th KY Inf USA, Col over Camp Nelson)

b. 1833 d. 1910

Maysville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Pennsylvania native. Son of Johnathan A. Bierbower and Lucetta Bierbower. Student in Maysville in 1850. Attorney in Maysville in 1860. Mayor of Maysville in 1862. Served in the 40th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as captain and major from September 1, 1863, to December 30, 1864. Commandant of Camp Nelson from July 18, 1865, to August 23, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 115B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 329.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, Ward 2, p. 413.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 431.

"Frederick Huber Bierbower (1833-1910)," Find A Grave, Memorial #156273789,

accessed December 17, 2018, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156273789.

Richard D. Sears, Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2002), 230, 244.

KYR-0001-020-1800.

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Bierbower, Frederick H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211178 (January 24, 2026).

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