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Joseph McMillen (Grant County, Kentucky, overseer and soldier (11th KY Cav))

b. 1811? d. 1864-07-20

Grant County, Kentucky, overseer and soldier. Kentucky native. Overseer in Grant County, Kentucky, in 1860. Household owned five enslaved persons in Grant County in 1860. Served in the 11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a blacksmith from September 22, 1862 to July 20, 1864. Captured in Blount County, Tennessee, on November 14, 1863. Prisoner of war at Andersonville Prison, in Sumter County, Georgia. Died at Andersonville Prison on July 20, 1864.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 867-8.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Grant County, p. 37A-B.

“McMillan, Joseph,” U.S., National Cemetery Interment Control Forms, 1928-1962, Records of the Office of the Quartermaster General, 1774-1985, NARA RG 92.

"McMillian, Joseph," Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0109

"Joseph McMillan (unknown-1864)," Find A Grave, Memorial 51140469, accessed December 4, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/51140469.

Citation

McMillen, Joseph. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213462 (November 12, 2026).

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