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Military: <rs ref='#S32197240'>Daniel Weisiger Lindsey (Adjutant General &amp; Inspector General)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213780'>Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co)</rs><lb/>
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Political: <rs ref='#S32213781'>Madison Conyers Johnson (Lexington, Kentucky, attorney and banker, RR director, pres of UK Law Dept)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32207440'>Louis W. Little (2nd Regiment Kentucky Cavalry)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202976'>Thomas McKinster (Lawrence County, KY, farmer and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205811'>James W. Caperton (Richmond, KY, attorney and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32213349'>[unknown] Shanks (Major, U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32199819'>13th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32209201'>Robert C. Hewett (Louisville, KY, physician )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32196592'>William Baker Swisher (Kansas Territory physician and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32200169'>Benjamin F. Howard (Magoffin County, Kentucky, farmer, deputy sheriff; 1st lieut &amp; capt 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32210046'>John M. Cook (Clay County, KY, farmer; pvt 6th KY Cav US, cpt 49th KY Inf USA, capt 6th KY Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32203992'>Speed Smith Fry (Boyle County, KY, general, abuser of refugee families at Camp Nelson)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32212686'>Walter M. Prentice (Cuyahoga County, Ohio, physician and soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32203663'>Stephen Golden  (Knox County, Kentucky, captain 49th KY Inf USA )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205639'>Jesse Mattingly (Clay County, KY, farmer;1st lieut 1st Harlan co Battalion and 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32204200'>Isaac Jones Black (Knox County, Kentucky, farmer; agent, 1st lieut &amp; capt 49th KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32207537'>Philos Stratton (Madison County, Kentucky artist; adjutant, major, &amp; lt col USA )</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32208205'>2nd Regiment Kentucky Enrolled Militia</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32209574'>Joseph T. Wheeler (Cincinnati, Ohio farmer and capt 1st KY Inf USA)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32200908'>Richard J. C. Bocking (Indianapolis, Indiana resident and former soldier)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32198098'>Thomas T. Sharp  (Covington, KY, capt 7th KY Cav USA)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32196876'>Andrew S. Bloom (Hamilton, Ohio, daguerreotype artist and soldier (52nd OH Inf and 7th KY Cav))</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32205118'>Green Clay Smith (Richmond, Madison County, Kentucky attorney, politician, and soldier)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32203269'>United States Army</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32197778'>Samuel P. Debaun (Mercer County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier - 1st Lt. 11th Ky. Cav.)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32211833'>Archibald J. Alexander (Louisville, Kentucky, lumber merchant and soldier.)</rs><lb/>
Military: <rs ref='#S32202363'>11th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1850), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, District 19, p. 146B.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Buck Township, p. 675.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1870), Population Schedules, Illinois, Edgar County, Paris, p. 170A. <lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Kentucky</hi>, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0095.<lb/>

John Boyle, <hi rend='italic'>Boyle Genealogy: John Boyle of Virginia and Kentucky</hi> (St. Louis, MO: Perrin &amp; Smith Printing Co., 1909), 63-65.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. vii.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>The Thirty-Fourth Annual Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Centre College, at Danville, Kentucky, 1858</hi> (Frankfort, KY: Frankfort Commonwealth Office, 1858), 9.<lb/>

"Youngest General," <hi rend='italic'>Kentucky Advocate</hi> (Danville, KY), December 17, 1913, p. 1.</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32214779'>John Boyle (Edgar County, Illinois, attorney, soldier, and Adjutant General.)</rs>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 46-47.</bibl>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32212766'>Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war)</rs><lb/>
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Military: <rs ref='#S32208217'>Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army))</rs><lb/>
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<hi rend='italic'>Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States</hi> (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Larue County, p. 42.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 51.</bibl>
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                  <bibl>"Cincinnati, Ohio," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 13, 2019, <a href='https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.'>https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.</a><lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>History of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Their Past and Present, Including Biographies and Portraits of Pioneers and Representative Citizens</hi> (Cincinnati: S.B. Nelson, 1894), 17.</bibl>
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                  <bibl><hi rend='italic'>Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky</hi>, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 46.<lb/>

<hi rend='italic'>A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion</hi>, vol. 1 (Des Moines: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 1190.</bibl>
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