Louis Douglas Watkins

Birth Date

c1835

Death Date

1868-03-28

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Kentucky, soldier. Florida native. Married to Mary E. Rousseau Watkins in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on August 4, 1864. Served in the 14th United States Infantry Regiment as a first lieutenant from May 14, 1861 to June 22, 1861. Served in the 5th United States Cavalry Regiment as a first lieutenant and captain from June 22, 1861 to January 1863. Served in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from February 1, 1863 to June 24, 1864. Brevetted brigadier general on June 24, 1864.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000482710, p. 26-27.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 136-37.
"Louis Douglas Watkins," Appleton’s Cyclopædia of American Biography, Vol. 6, eds. John Fiske and James Grant Wilson, (New York: Appleton, 1889), 388.

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