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Samuel D. Lester, Jr. (Caldwell co., ky, farmer, pvt 8th mtd inf. (csa))

b. 1837?

Caldwell County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Samuel Lester and Cinderella Lester. Resident in Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Caldwell County in 1850. Farmer in Long Pond in 1860. Employed James Lester as a farm laborer in Long Pond in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Long Pond in 1860. Served in the 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from September 26, 1861, to July 31, 1862. Captured at Fort Donelson, Tennessee, on February 16, 1862. Captured and paroled at Vicksburg on July 4, 1863. Reported as deserted on July 5, 1863. Imprisoned at the Military Prison in Louisville, Kentucky, from August 27, 1863, to September 1, 1863. Imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio, from September 2, 1863, to January 22, 1864. Imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois, from January 24, 1864, to January 25, 1864. Enlisted in the U.S. Navy on January 24, 1864.

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Sex
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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 365A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 790.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Long Pond, p. 13.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, Long Pond, p. 216A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 296-97.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0126.

Citation

Lester, Samuel D., Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213549 (November 12, 2026).

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