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Samuel J. Cabell (Green County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier)

b. 1840-05-04 d. 1864-03-06

Green County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Frederick Cabell and Paulina Cabell. Resident of Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Green County in 1850. Farmhand in Green County in 1860. Household owned fourteen enslaved persons in Green County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a corporal, first sergeant, and first lieutenant from December 31, 1861 to March 1864. Wounded at the Battle of Huff's Ferry, Roane County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863. Died in March 1864 of wounds received at the Battle of Huff's Ferry.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 109B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 568.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 74A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 865-6.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0263.

"Lieut Samuel J. Cabell (1840-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 98197080, accessed November 29, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98197080.

Citation

Cabell, Samuel J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211955 (November 12, 2026).

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