Edgar Baird

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c1842

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"Edgar Baird" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013085, (accessed April 28, 2024).

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Bath County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Harding Baird and Louise J. Baird. Farmer in Bath County in 1861. Served in the 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a private from December 31, 1861. Reported as deserted from Louisville, Kentucky, on May 1, 1862. Served in the 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) as corporal from September 9, 1862, to September 17, 1863. Served in Captain Bussey’s Bath County Rangers as a third lieutenant from December 11, 1863, to April 1, 1864. Served in the First Regiment Capital Guards, Frankfort Battalion, as a second lieutenant from September 1, 1864, to February 6, 1865.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Wyoming, p. 123B.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 245.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0365.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 0100.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 760, 887.

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