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Simon G. Engleman (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - Sgt. 3rd Ky. Cav. (C.S.A.))

b. 1830? d. 1864-08-27

Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John Engleman and M. F. Engleman. Attended school in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1850. Laborer in Lincoln County in 1850. Household owned nineteen enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1850. Farmer in Lincoln County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Lincoln County in 1860. Convicted of carrying a concealed deadly weapon in Lincoln County in September 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a sergeant from August 20, 1861 to August 27, 1864. Taken prisoner of war by the United States Army at Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio, on July 20, 1863. Died of dysentery at Camp Douglass, Illinois on August 27, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 277B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, District 2, p. 233.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 45.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Lincoln County, p. 344B.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0040.

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Engleman, Simon G.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281035 (November 12, 2026).

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