Charles Jefferson Sterett

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1833-02

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1893-08-06

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"Charles Jefferson Sterett" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00001796, (accessed November 4, 2025).

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Hancock County, Kentucky, medical student and soldier. Hardinsburg, Kentucky, native. Son of William Sterett and Elizabeth Sterett. Married Eliza McAdams Sterett in Hancock County on July 5, 1865. Resident of Hancock County in 1850. Medical Student in Hancock County in 1860. Enlisted in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C. S. A.) on June 1, 1861.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Unnamed District, p. 268; Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, Unnamed District, p. 40; Twelfth Manuscript Census of the United States (1900), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hancock County, ED 41, Hawesville City, Ward 1, p. 7A; 1018 Sterett, Eliza McAdams, Application for Pension, July 1, 1912, Department of Confederate Pensions (1912-1946), Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, https://dspace.kdla.ky.gov/jspui/handle/10602/3781 (accessed September 13, 2017); Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky: Confederate Kentucky Volunteers War 1861-65, vol. 1 (Frankfort: Legislature of Kentucky, 1915), 22.

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