John W. Walls (Adair co. pvt and sergeant 1st Ky Light Art.)
b. 1833?
Adair County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Farmer in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1850. Resident of Adair County in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment (U.S.A.) as private and sergeant from October 8, 1861, to February 29, 1864. Paroled prisoner of war at Camp Chase, Ohio, from July 1862, to September 1862.
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Bibliography
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 1, p. 259A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, Columbia, District 2, p. 45.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0147.
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Walls, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214902 (November 12, 2026).
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