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Sherwood H. Woolfolk (Hopkins County, Kentucky, student at law and second lieut. 10th Ky Cav )

b. 1837 d. 1920

Hopkins County, Kentucky, student at law and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John L. Woolfolk. Student in Hopkins County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Student at law in Hopkins County in 1860. Household owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860. Served in the 10th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from December 20, 1862. Captured at Cheshire, Ohio, on July 20, 1863 to January 4, 1865. Prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. Government on January 4, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 49B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 697

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 589.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 209A.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 66-67.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0059.

"Lieut Sherwood Hicks Woolfolk (1837-1920)," Find A Grave, Memorial #10171478, accessed December 15, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10171478.

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Woolfolk, Sherwood H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214864 (November 12, 2026).

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