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Ottoway B. Skaggs (Green County, KY, farmer and soldier)

b. 1832? d. 1862-09-13

Green County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of John B. Skaggs. Married to Priscilla Thompson Skaggs. Father of Mary F. Skaggs, John A. Skaggs, and Edward I. Skaggs. Laborer in Green County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned one enslaved person in 1850. Farmer in Green County in 1860. Served in the 13th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 13, 1861, to September 13, 1862. Died in military service in Madison County, Alabama, on September 13, 1862.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 142A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 2, p. 224.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District 1, p. 639.

Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War Veterans, ca. 1861 – ca. 1910, NARA RG 15, Application WC9551.

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Skaggs, Ottoway B.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281052 (November 12, 2026).

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