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Moses Higginbottom (Russell County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 2 Lt. 12th Ky. Inf.)

b. 1817? d. 1862-07-04

Russell County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Higginbottom. Married to Margaret Miller Higginbottom in Russell County, Kentucky, on January 29, 1857. Father of Robert Higginbottom, Mary Higginbottom, James Isaac Higginbottom, Patience Higginbottom, John Higginbottom, and Eliza Higginbottom. Farmer in Russell County, Kentucky, in 1850. Farmer in Russell County in 1860. Served in the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a second lieutenant from January 30, 1862 to July 4, 1862.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, District 1, p. 238B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Russell County, Russell, p. 770.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 256.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Russell County Marriages, Film 000594312, p. 226.

"Moses Higginbottom (1817-1862)," Find A Grave, Memorial 65679807, accessed June 19, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65679807.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 843.

Citation

Higginbottom, Moses. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281025 (November 12, 2026).

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