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James Quilbert Chenoweth (Mercer County, Kentucky, notary public and colonel)

b. 1841-02-09 d. 1909-06-02

Mercer County, Kentucky, notary public and soldier. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Chenoweth and Nancy T. Passmore Chenoweth. Married to Scotia M. Inskeep Chenoweth. Student in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduate of Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1860. Student in Mercer County in 1860. Appointed notary public for Mercer County on March 13, 1861. Served in Bennett's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (C.S.A.) as drillmaster from 1861 to 1862. Wounded in action at the Battle of Shiloh. Mustered in as major in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) on September 2, 1862. Wounded in action at the Battle of Chickamauga. Appointed colonel and raised the 16th (Chenoweth's) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) on September 6, 1864. Surrendered in Paris, Tennessee, on May 4, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on May 12, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 367A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 708.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 595A.

Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 286.

Catalogue of the Indiana Asbury University for 1859-'60 (Indianapolis, IN: Bingham & Doughty, Book & Job Printers, 1860), 8.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066.

Find A Grave, "James Quilbert Chenoweth (1841-1909)," Memorial #95625835, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95625835/james-quilbert-chenoweth (accessed April 13, 2021).

KYR-0001-017-0104.

Citation

Chenoweth, James Quilbert. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213508 (November 12, 2026).

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