Person

Alpheus Washington Bascom (Bath County, Kentucky, student, clerk, private and first lieutenant (C.S.A.))

b. 1840-05-16 d. 1912-02-22

Bath County, Kentucky, student, clerk, and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Sylvanus Clark Bascom and Mary Nicholas Owings Bascom. Married to Nancy Jane Dawson Bascom in Bath County, Kentucky, on April 15, 1863. Father of William J. Bascom and Mary N. Bascom. Student in Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in Bath County in 1850. Clerk in Lafayette County, Missouri, in 1860. Household owned one enslaved person in Lafayette County in 1860. Served in the 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry (C.S.A.) as private and first lieutenant from October 21, 1861 to November 29, 1862.

Details

Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 16A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2, p. 302.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Missouri, Lafayette County, Lexington, p. 591.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Missouri, Lafayette County, Lexington, p. 426B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 58 A-B.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994028, Bath County Marriages, p. 137.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), p. 260-261.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0106.

Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, eds. Mary S. Lockwood and Susan Riviere Hetzel (Washington, D. C.: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1891-1939) vol. 150: 1919, p. 119.

"Alpheus Washington Bascom (1840-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial 44098858, accessed September 27, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44098858.

Citation

Bascom, Alpheus Washington. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280606 (November 12, 2026).

The people, organizations, and places listed below appear in the same documents as Alpheus Washington Bascom (Bath County, Kentucky, student, clerk, private and first lieutenant (C.S.A.)). They are sorted by the number of documents they share.

Documents (1)

People

Organizations

Places

Loading network...

Network Visualized

How to use the visualization

CWGK’s network visualization brings the edition’s documents to life. The network on this page centers around Bascom, Alpheus Washington. Click on the light blue dot to see the documents in which the entity appears. You can also click on the dark orange dots to see other people linked to Bascom, Alpheus Washington, a light orange dot to see the places connected to Bascom, Alpheus Washington, or dark green dots to see organizations linked to Bascom, Alpheus Washington.

Additionally, the lines between the dots add additional information. The light green lines demonstrate direct connections between Bascom, Alpheus Washington and another person, place, or organization. The light pink lines highlight that the dots appear in the same document.