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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Civil Appointments, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-017-0104 MG3-474

James Quilbert Chenoweth (Mercer County, Kentucky, notary public and colonel) N00014278 1841-02-09 1909-06-02 Categories: People

Mercer County, Kentucky, notary public and soldier. Louisville, Kentucky, native. Son of Thomas Chenoweth and Nancy T. Passmore Chenoweth. Married to Scotia M. Inskeep Chenoweth. Student in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduate of Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana, in 1860. Student in Mercer County in 1860. Appointed notary public for Mercer County on March 13, 1861. Served in Bennett's Tennessee Cavalry Battalion (C.S.A.) as drillmaster from 1861 to 1862. Wounded in action at the Battle of Shiloh. Mustered in as major in the 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) on September 2, 1862. Wounded in action at the Battle of Chickamauga. Appointed colonel and raised the 16th (Chenoweth's) Kentucky Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) on September 6, 1864. Surrendered in Paris, Tennessee, on May 4, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on May 12, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 367A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 708. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 595A. Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 286. Catalogue of the Indiana Asbury University for 1859-'60 (Indianapolis, IN: Bingham & Doughty, Book & Job Printers, 1860), 8. Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0066. Find A Grave, "James Quilbert Chenoweth (1841-1909)," Memorial #95625835, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95625835/james-quilbert-chenoweth (accessed April 13, 2021). KYR-0001-017-0104. Mercer County, Kentucky P00000556 Categories: Places

County in central Kentucky. Seat at Harrodsburg. Located on the Kentucky River.

Relationships Political: Ephraim J. Polk (Mercer County, Kentucky, attorney and examiner for Mercer County)

37.7623, -84.8433 "Harrodsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 25, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Ron D. Bryant, “Mercer County,” in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 627. Note English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Notary Public J. Q. Chenowith ApdMar 13. 1861