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Joseph B. Burnside (Garrard County, KY, trader, prov govt council rep )

b. 1829?

Garrard County, Kentucky, trader and provisional government council member. Kentucky native. Son of Williamson G. Burnside and Elizabeth Burnside. Trader in Garrard County in 1860. Household owned sixteen enslaved persons in Garrard County in 1860. Member of the Council of Ten of the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861. Member of the Committee on Ways and Means for the provisional government of Kentucky in 1861.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, Division 1, p. 249A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 706.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Garrard County, p. 26B (p. 23 of microfilm).

KYR-0004-033-0004.

KYR-0004-033-0008.

Citation

Burnside, Joseph B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212441 (November 12, 2026).

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