George Watkins Drye

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c1843

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"George Watkins Drye" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00005237, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Casey County, Kentucky soldier. Casey County native. Son of George Drye, Jr., and Rowena D. Drye. Resident of Casey County in 1850. Household owned twenty-one enslaved persons in 1850. Student in Casey County in 1860. Household owned twenty-nine enslaved persons in 1860. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as first lieutenant, adjutant, captain and major from July 18, 1861, to June 9, 1864. Wounded at Rockford, Tennessee on November 14, 1862.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District 2, p. 316B
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District 2, p. 935
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, District no. 5, p. 418.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Casey County, p. 251.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 2-3.

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