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Richard N. Lyons (Alabama, pvt 7th alabama cav (csa), prvt 1st Ky Light Artilley )

b. 1845-04-20 d. 1919-01-10

Kentucky soldier. Alabama native. Son of Mary Lyons. Resident in DeKalb County, Alabama, in 1850. Served in the 7th Alabama Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private. Captured at Winchester, Tennessee, on August 10, 1863. Prisoner of war at Louisville, Kentucky, from August 10, 1863. Released after signing a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on September 7, 1863. Served in the 1st Kentucky Light Artillery (U.S.A.) as a private from September 10, 1863, to July 26, 1865.

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Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Alabama, DeKalb County, District 24, p. 378A.b

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 510.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0148.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Alabama, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M311, Roll 0025.

"Richard Nathaniel Lyons (1845-1919)," Find A Grave, Memorial #33007031, accessed November 19, 2020, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/33007031.

Citation

Lyons, Richard N.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32279769 (November 13, 2026).

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