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Robert W. Hilburn (Allen County, Kentucky, farmhand, soldier (C.S.A.), and guerilla)

b. 1844?

Allen County, Kentucky, farmhand and soldier. Mississippi native. Married to Elizabeth H. Mayhew Hilburn in Allen County, Kentucky, on August 12, 1863. Father of Jennette C. Hilburn. Farmhand in Allen County, Kentucky, in 1860. Attended school in Allen County in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Allen County in 1860. Served in the 20th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry (C.S.A.) as a corporal from June 1, 1861, to February 15, 1862. Served in the 19th Tennessee (Biffle's) Volunteer Cavalry (C.S.A.) from February 15, 1862. Served as a private in the 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. Paroled at Gallatin County, Tennessee, on May 9, 1865. Reported as a guerilla of Ellis Harper's Partisan Rangers through October 1865. Indicted for robbery in Simpson County, Kentucky, in 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Allen County, Buttersville, p. 241.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Allen County, Buttersville, p. 15B.

Tenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1880), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Union County, Morganfield, p. 538B.

Thirteenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1910), Population Schedules, Missouri, Jasper County, Joplin Ward 7, p. 6B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Allen County Marriages, Film 000851644, p. 55.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M268, Roll 0202.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M268, Roll 0001.

KYR-0001-006-0082.

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Hilburn, Robert W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32215212 (November 12, 2026).

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