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Elijah Saltsman (Hart County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier in 33rd and 26th KY)

b. 1842?

Hart County, Kentucky, farm laborer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Peter Saltsman and Elizabeth Constant Saltsman. Married to Rebecca Ann Skaggs Saltsman in Larue County, Kentucky, on October 4, 1865. Father of Loretta Saltsman. Resident in Green County in 1850. Farm laborer in Hart County in 1860. Served in Company D 33rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a Private from September 13, 1862, to April 1, 1864. Captured and paroled at the Battle of Munfordville, Kentucky, on September 17, 1862. Served in Company K 26th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) as a Private from April 1, 1864, to June 30, 1865. Wounded at the Battle of Nashville, Tennessee, December 15-16, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 145A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, District 2, p. 822.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Upper Brush Creek, p. 512A.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 381.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 405.

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #268.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Larue County Marriages, Film #000409563, p. 103.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 228-9, 233.

Citation

Saltsman, Elijah. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280440 (November 12, 2026).

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