Henry Clay Meriwether

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1829-12-09

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1873-01-21

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"Henry Clay Meriwether" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000922, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Louisville, Kentucky, physician and soldier. Son of David H. Meriweather and Lydia Meriweather. Physician in Louisville in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government held at Russellville in November 1861. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a captain from September 1862 to July 1863. Captured with John Hunt Morgan in July 1863. Prisoner of war from July 1863 to October 1864 when he was exchanged and paroled.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 306A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 1, p. 141.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers, vol. 2 (Hartford, Ky.: Cook & McDowell Publications: 1980), 64 and 272.
Adam Rankin Johnson, The Partisan Rangers of the Confederate States Army, ed. William J. Davis (G. G. Fetter Company, 1904), 327-329.
Birth and Death Records: Covington, Lexington, Louisville, and Newport – Microfilm (before 1911), KDLA, Roll #7007126, Louisville Deaths, p. 252.
Find A Grave, "Dr. Henry Clay Meriweather (December 9, 1829-January 20, 1873)," Memorial #7037468, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7037468 (accessed February 15, 2017).
KYR-0004-033-0001.

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