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Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) N00000946 1822? Categories: People

Adair County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Amanda F. Baker Suddarth in Adair County, Kentucky, on January 18, 1848. Father of Clay Suddarth and Tyler Suddarth. Married to Nancy B. Baker Suddarth in April 1859. Father of Samuel Suddarth and James Suddarth. Attorney in Adair County in 1850. Attorney in Adair County in 1860. Quartermaster general of Kentucky from September 1, 1863, to January 13, 1866.

Relationships Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: Office of the Adjutant General of Kentucky Military: Kentucky Volunteers Military: Kentucky State Guard Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Political: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: G. T. Spillman (Captain, Franklin County) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Jones A. Crawford (Lincoln County, Kentucky, farmer and pvt/1st Lieu Cav USA) Military: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA) Military: 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Economic: United States Department of the Treasury Economic: John C. Wilson (Washington, D.C., printer and clerk.) Economic: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: United States Army Military: J. R. Hutchinson (Kentucky, acting surgeon (U.S.A.)) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: William A. Gaines (Frankfort, Kentucky, postmaster) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Economic: James Heron Graham (Frankfort, KY, telegraph operator) Military: Isaac Webb Scott (Louisville, Kentucky, physician, lieut col 5th KY Cav USA, and state surgeon general) Economic: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: George Frederick Armor (Baltimore, Md, lieutenant and qm (U.S.A.)) Economic: William Bowling (Carter County, Kentucky, farmer, attorney, and politician.) Military: John McAuley Palmer (Military Governor of Kentucky) Political: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Economic: Bank of Kentucky Branch at Frankfort

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 2, 60A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Adair County, District 1, p. 153. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File 27493. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994027, Adair County Births. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Adair County Marriages, Film 000830576. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) N00002617 1833-06-28 1875-01-02 Categories: People

Lexington, Kentucky, trader, soldier, and inventor. Lexington, Kentucky, native. Trader with Joseph S. Scott in Lexington in 1860. Served in the 3rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a lieutenant colonel and colonel from October 8, 1861, to December 7, 1862. Resigned from service on December 7, 1862. Paymaster General of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1865. Invented the Triplett & Scott repeating rifle with Lewis Triplett, patented in December 1864.

Relationships Military: Parker, Snow, Brooks & Company. Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: McFerran & Menefee Economic: McFerran & Menefee Social: John H. Taylor (Fayette County, Kentucky, hack driver and livery stable keeper) Social: James Blackburn (Woodford County, Kentucky, farmer) Social: Theophilus Steel (Versailles physician)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington, p. 426. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, Lexington Ward 2, p. 240A. Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0176. Executive Documents Printed by Order of The House of Representatives during the Second Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress, 1864-65, vol. 10-11 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1865), p. 961. Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue: Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 183-184. "William T Scott (1833-1875)," Find A Grave, Memorial 60045140, accessed May 27, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/60045140. KYR-0002-222-0125. Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky O00000389 Categories: Organizations

Chief supply officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Civil War-era quartermaster generals: M. D. West, W. A. Dudley (October 3,1861-October 30, 1862), James F. Robinson, Jr. (December 2, 1862-August 31, 1863), Samuel G. Suddarth (September 1, 1863-January 13, 1866). Civil War-era assistant quartermaster generals: Henry J. Lyons (June 1861) and John E. Murrah (September 1865).

Relationships Military: William Thompson Scott (Lexington, KY, 3rd KY Inf lt col & col USA and inventor) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Economic: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Military: William Ambrose Dudley (Lexington, KY, attorney, quartermaster general, and univ trustee ) Economic: John B. Lindsey (Versailles, Kentucky, farmer, paymaster & organizer for KY militia) Economic: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Economic: William Stewart (Clerk for Kentucky Inspector General) Military: Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General & Inspector General) Military: James Fisher Robinson, Jr. (QMG of KY, Gov's son) Legal: Government of the United States of America

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), vii. Works Progress Administration, Military History of Kentucky, Frankfort, Kentucky, Adjutant General of Kentucky, 1939, 169-70. KYR-0001-005-0132. KYR-0001-019-0094. Paymaster Department O00018493 1775-06-16 Categories: Organizations

Paymaster Department of the United States Army. Paymasters Generals: Colonel Benjamin F. Larned, Colonel Timothy P. Andrews, Colonel Benjamin W. Brice.

Colonel A. B. Carey, “The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief, The Pay Department,” The Army of the US Historical Sketches of Staff and Line with Portraits of Generals-in-Chief ed. Theophilus Francis Rodenbough and William L. Haskin (New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1896), 100-110. 1863-09 Report English Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Abstract of Advances made to officers during the month of September by S G Suddarth Q M General of Ky

DateTo whomAmt.1863Sept 7W. T. Scott Pay Master General120578do do do70000019do do do13000024do do do107225do do do700000Total$1543129

I certify that the above abstract is correct

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Abst B For the Month ending 30. Sept 63 $15431.29 Advances made to officers