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James W. Brown (Caldwell County, Ky, farm laborer and pvt 12th KY Cav CSA)

b. 1842?

Caldwell County and Ballard County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Son of Grant G. Brown and Caroline Brown. Resident of Caldwell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farm laborer in Ballard County in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private from April 1, 1864, to his surrender at Columbia on May 16, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Caldwell County, District 2, p. 379B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ballard County, Blandsville, p. 568.

"James Wilbur Brown (1842-1903)," Find A Grave, Memorial #124580939, accessed February 25, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124580939.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 2 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 118-19.

Citation

Brown, James W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32214955 (November 12, 2026).

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