Charles David Pennebaker

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1825-11-03

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1888-06-21

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"Charles David Pennebaker" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00002582, (accessed April 18, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Nelson County, Kentucky, native. Married to Anne Eliza Elliott Pennebaker in Nelson County, Kentucky, on November 8, 1851. Father of Charles Pennebaker, Lulie Pennebaker, and John Pennebaker. Attorney in Nelson County in 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1857 to 1859. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Jefferson County from 1859 to 1861. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Louisville in 1860. Served in the 27th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from March 21, 1862 to April 10, 1864. Kentucky state military agent in Washington, D.C., from 1864 to 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 278B
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 339.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 8th Ward, p. 290A.
Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994041, Jefferson County Deaths, p. 68.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 001929414.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 232.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2014), 181.

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