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Marion Cartright Taylor (Shelby County, Ky, attorney; capt & colonel 15th KY Inf USA)

b. 1822-10-30 d. 1871-01-04

Shelby County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Ohio County, Kentucky, native. Attended St. Mary's College. Graduate of University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1849. Attorney in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Shelby County in 1860. Served in the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and colonel from December 14, 1861, to January 14, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby, District 1, p. 296B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby, District 2, p. 3.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 892.

Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue -- Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014), 189.

"Col Marion Cartright Taylor (1822-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7430426, accessed June 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7430426.

Citation

Taylor, Marion Cartright. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32213912 (November 12, 2026).

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